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Synopsis
Detective Inspector Benjamin Jurnet is reunited with his true love, Miriam, but their romantic tryst outside the quaint English village of Lanthrop is rudely interrupted when they find a corpse in a sand dune
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About the Author
"One of the purest lyric voices in the mystery field" New York Times Book Review
Sylvia Theresa Haymon was born in Norwich, and is best known for her eight crime fiction novels featuring the character Inspector Ben Jurnet. Haymon also wrote two non-fiction books for children, as well as two memoirs of her childhood in East Anglia.
The Ben Jurnet series enjoyed success in both the UK and the US during Haymon's lifetime: Ritual Murder (1982) won the prestigious CWA Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association. Stately Homicide (1984), a skilful variation on the country house mystery, was praised by the New York Times as a 'brilliantly crafted novel of detection...stylish serious fiction', and favourably compared to the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
From Kirkus Reviews
Another gem in the author's series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Ben Jurnet (A Very Particular Murder, 1989, etc.) of the Angleby CID. This time out, Ben has taken his beloved, elusive Miriam, just returned from Israel, to a little-visited beach outside the tiny village of Lanthrop. It's she who discovers the corpse, partially buried in sand, later to be identified as Annie Chance--mother of dimwitted, 18-year-old Tim; housekeeper to young widow Hannah Milburn; and lover to married woodsman Oz Bailey. Annie had been thought by the whole village to have taken off with a traveling salesman weeks before. Possible connections to the nearby archaeological site run by Paul Abbott, who's in love with Hannah Milburn, and to a local goat-farm whose owner has recently died of AIDS lead nowhere. The case is in limbo when the sudden appearance of the long-sought traveling salesman recasts the timetable of Annie's last day--and sends Jurnet racing back to Lanthrop, just in time to prevent another killing. At times a bit verbose, but Haymon's wonderful mix of literacy, humor, psychological depth, and storytelling magic put her in the very top echelon of writers in the genre. A dazzling performance. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherArrow (A Division of Random House Group)
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 009999190X
- ISBN 13 9780099991908
- BindingPaperback
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