Necessary End - Hardcover
At a New Year’s Eve party in their hotel in Frecklemarsh, the guests can sense an uneasy tension between their hosts, Oliver and his second wife Nancy Pendrick.
Growing resentment in their marriage, caused by Nancy’s independence and commitment to her London-based catering business, is evident in the fraught family relationships which extends to two wilful stepchildren.
To add fuel to the fire, old flames are returning to the sleepy village, memories of Oliver’s first wife, the beautiful yet troubled Avis, refuse to fade and gossip flies around the small community.
All in all when the festive season is over and Nancy returns to London it is a relief...until she doesn’t return...
When a female corpse is discovered on a lonely road in Chedbury and eventually identified as Mrs Pendrick, there is universal shock, horror and multiple unanswered questions.
With all the guests at the New Year’s Eve party potential suspects, CID Webb has his work cut out to track down the killer, and when he fits the pieces of the puzzle together, it forms a picture he would never have expected to see...
‘A Necessary End’ is a gripping crime thriller from bestselling author Anthea Fraser.
Praise for Anthea Fraser:
“A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist
“Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times
“A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story” - Birmingham Post
“Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings” - Yorkshire Post
Anthea Fraser has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her novels include ‘The Seven Stars’, ‘The Ten Commandments’, ‘Death Speaks Softly’ and ‘Pretty Maids All in a Row’.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Large Print Bks.
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0708915558
- ISBN 13 9780708915554
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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A NECESSARY END
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Walker & Company, New York
(1986)
ISBN 10: 0708915558
ISBN 13: 9780708915554
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. When the ingenious Chief Inspector Webb, whose drawings help him work on the puzzles of a crime, finally fits those figurative pieces into place, they form a picture that even the policeman hadn't expected to see. A very attractive bok that appears UNREAD. Keywords: FRASER CHIEF INSPECTOR WEBB MYSTERY DETECTIVE MURDER TRADITIONAL BRITISH ENGLAND. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Seller Inventory # 001458
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