The Accomplice - Hardcover
Jean Loftus has lived at Ashe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the garden, speak to an orderly, gracious, supremely English life. But when workmen unearth a skeleton from that garden, the skeletons from Jean's past begin rising to the surface. The life they speak of?a childhood in Revolutionary Russia, chaotic years as a refugee between the two world wars?was neither orderly nor English. Zita Daunsey, Jean's neighbor in this cozy Sussex town, would like to help Jean protect her secrets. But this task is made more difficult with the sudden arrival of a mysterious, aggressively inquisitive Russian student. What aging sin is Jean so anxious to conceal? And at what point does Zita become an accomplice to it?
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From the Publisher:
Elizabeth Ironside won Britain's John Creasey award and was nominated for the prestigious Betty Trask award for her first mystery, A Very Private Enterprise. Author's previous book, Death in the Garden, was shortlisted for Britain's Gold Dagger award for best mystery of 1995. On publication last year, Death in the Garden got rave reviews in the New York Times and Washington Post, among other newspapers, and was named one of the 12 best books of the year by National Public Radio. It has sold more than 20,000 copies in the 9 months since publication.
Review:
"A spellbinding story of love, murder and deception" -- Evening Telegraph (UK)
"Elizabeth Ironside is one of those few mystery writers you unreservedly look forward to reading" -- The Spectator (UK)
"Elizabeth Ironside is one of those few mystery writers you unreservedly look forward to reading" -- The Spectator (UK)
"Elizabeth Ironside is one of those few mystery writers you unreservedly look forward to reading" -- The Spectator (UK)
"Elizabeth Ironside is one of those few mystery writers you unreservedly look forward to reading" -- The Spectator (UK)
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- PublisherF A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0708939287
- ISBN 13 9780708939284
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages576
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