Guttridge brings back several favorite characters from earlier installments (The Devil’s Moon, 2013, etc.) in a clever...
The Brighton police discover a connection between a scandal at the Royal Pavilion and looting at Angkor Wat.
After losing his job over a raid gone bad, former Chief Constable Bob Watts has just been appointed Brighton’s first police commissioner when his ex-lover DI Sarah Gilchrist and her brainy detective sergeant Bellamy Heap catch a case that reveals that Bernard Rafferty, Director of the Royal Pavilion, has long been digging up women's graves. Many of the mummified remains are posed around his house, all dressed up for a party. When the police check out storerooms in the Pavilion, they find bags of bones, sealed-up tunnels and crates of unauthorized Asian artifacts. Half a world away, in Southeast Asia, Watts’ old service buddy, security expert Jimmy Tingley, is pursuing the man he thinks caused the death of his Eurasian wife. In the chaos following the fall of Cambodia, Tingley went in with a team sent to rescue several captured sailors from a prison notorious for torture. Also imprisoned there were his wife and her archaeologist father. Tingley was betrayed and abandoned by his companions, who had actually come to steal Cambodian treasures. He followed them but eventually heard they were killed along with his wife. Now Tingley asks Watts for help because he thinks the man he seeks is using a Brighton antique shop as a cover for smuggling artifacts and maybe something more dire. The two cases merge in a startling denouement.
Guttridge brings back several favorite characters from earlier installments (The Devil’s Moon, 2013, etc.) in a clever puzzle that links more of Brighton’s secrets to the ongoing dilemma of protecting cultural treasures from theft or destruction by armed conflict.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7278-8360-5
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Severn House
Review Posted Online: July 29, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 2014
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.
Too much free time leads a New Hampshire bookseller into yet another case of murder.
Now that Tricia Miles has Pixie Poe and Mr. Everett practically running her bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue, she finds herself at loose ends. Her wealthy sister, Angelica, who in the guise of Nigela Ricita has invested heavily in making Stoneham a bookish tourist attraction, is entering the amateur competition for the Great Booktown Bake-Off. So Tricia, who’s recently taken up baking as a hobby, decides to join her and spends a lot of time looking for the perfect cupcake recipe. A visit to another bookstore leaves Tricia witnessing a nasty argument between owner Joyce Widman and next-door neighbor Vera Olson over the trimming of tree branches that hang over Joyce’s yard—also overheard by new town police officer Cindy Pearson. After Tricia accepts Joyce’s offer of some produce from her garden, they find Vera skewered by a pitchfork, and when Police Chief Grant Baker arrives, Joyce is his obvious suspect. Ever since Tricia moved to Stoneham, the homicide rate has skyrocketed (Poisoned Pages, 2018, etc.), and her history with Baker is fraught. She’s also become suspicious about the activities at Pets-A-Plenty, the animal shelter where Vera was a dedicated volunteer. Tricia’s offered her expertise to the board, but president Toby Kingston has been less than welcoming. With nothing but baking on her calendar, Tricia has plenty of time to investigate both the murder and her vague suspicions about the shelter. Plenty of small-town friendships and rivalries emerge in her quest for the truth.
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.Pub Date: Aug. 13, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-9848-0272-9
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Berkley
Review Posted Online: May 26, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2019
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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