SAY IT WITH POISON

by Ann Granger ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 18, 1991

A trimly competent first novel set in Westerfield, a sleepy Oxfordshire village where Foreign Service Consul Meredith Mitchell has come to attend the wedding of her godchild Sara, daughter of her much-married film-star cousin Eve Owens. Eve is her usual glamorous self, on the verge of signing with American producer Albie Elliot, who's also a house guest, and seemingly thrilled with Sara's up-tight yuppie fiancÉ Jon Lazenby. But Meredith's discovery of a couple of gruesome packages left at the front door presages trouble--and it arrives when she finds the poisoned body of Phillip Lorrimer, the young potter who lives next door. Hints of blackmail surface, and there's another killing, as Chief Inspector Alan Markby works on the case--but its roots are in the past, and the ghost that haunts Meredith is finally exorcised with the solution. A neat plot with convincing psychological underpinning and a refreshingly tart, down-to-earth heroine augur well for future adventures of Meredith and Markby.

Pub Date: April 18, 1991

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: St. Martin's

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 1991

Categories: FICTION