Broken Star - Hardcover

Brown, Lizbie

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ISBN 10: 0312087144 ISBN 13: 9780312087142

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1993

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Ed McBain meets Jane Austen in this witty and sharp-edged introduction to the sleuthing duo of Elizabeth Blair and Max Shepard. Wry and down-to-earth Elizabeth is a widow who has forsaken her native Turkey Creek, Virginia, for a genteel English existence selling patchwork quilts in the picturesque town of Bath. What could be more quaint and placid?
But instead of charming vicars and elegant solicitors for neighbors, Elizabeth has Max - a handsome private-eye-cum-ladies-man who makes his living probing the dark secrets behind Bath's "quaint village" facade.
Broken Star: to Elizabeth, a quilt pattern; to Max, the unpopular television celebrity who needs the P.I. to clear him of a murder charge. When another death forges a connection between both stars, Max and Elizabeth join forces to sew up the case in this first in a literate and lethal series of quilt-pattern crime novels.

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About the Author:

Lizbie Brown, mother of a grown-up son and daughter, was brought up in Cornwall and now lives with her husband near Bristol..

From Publishers Weekly:

In this sprightly mystery debut, set in an English village, tension between the impoverished gentry and the newly rich leads to murder. Actor, TV personality and parvenu Larry Aitken, who has recently bought the Manor House in the fictional South Harptree, near Bath, believes the right to run things--including the local church--is part of his purchase. The fatal poisoning of Aitken's chief local detractor during a church-related meeting in the Manor brings deep hostility into the open. Targeted by a hate-mail campaign, Aitken hires young Bath private investigator Max Shepard to find out who is responsible. With the help of American widow Elizabeth Blair, who sells patchwork quilts in a shop beneath his office, Max sets out to find the womanizing Aitken's enemies--and they are many, including ex-mistresses and the former owners of the Manor. Another murder and Elizabeth's sharp-eyed forays into village society add interest to the credible plot as Brown skewers social foibles and the delusions of the pretentious.
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