A Fine Place for Death - Hardcover

Granger, Ann

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ISBN 10: 0312117876 ISBN 13: 9780312117870

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1995

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The body of a teenage girl is found in the heart of the leafy Cotswolds. As Chief Inspector Markby notes, for the Bamford community in which the murder has taken place, things will never be quite the same again. It is not long before the girl is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in The Silver Bells pub and, on the night of her death, was seen leaving with an unknown man.
Despite his years on the local force, Markby is aware that, in common with the rest of his generation, his grasp on the lives led by Bamford's teenagers is frustratingly tenuous. For even the most respectable youth, subterfuge is second nature, their liaisons conducted expertly behind the backs of unsuspecting parents. Liaisons that can, as in the case of Lynne Wills, result in tragedy. Markby's friend, Meredith Mitchell, has been befriended by one troubled young girl, Katie Conway, heir to the dilapidated Devaux estate. On the surface Lynne and Katie have nothing in common except their age and home town. But could the insights Katie gives Meredith into her difficult family background - an aristocratic mother whose hereditary eccentricity borders on extreme instability, a doting father at the end of his tether, and a scheming resident secretary - throw some light on the background of the murdered fifteen-year-old? And, given that forensic evidence now points to Lynne Wills's murder having taken place in the Devaux family mausoleum, could these insights also shed light on her murderer?

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About the Author:

Ann Granger has lived in cities all over the world, since for many years she worked for the Foreign Office and received postings to British embassies as far apart as Munich and Lusaka. She is now permanently based in Oxfordshire.

From Publishers Weekly:

Granger's deft plotting and elegant descriptive prose are in full play in the latest case featuring Inspector Alan Markby and his beloved Meredith Mitchell, a diplomat with the Foreign Office. Missing, however, are her delicate comic touch and her endearing eccentric secondary characters. When two young girls are brutally slain in the English market town of Bamford, Alan hopes to keep Meredith safely detached from the investigation. But both her recent speech about her career to the parish youth group and her quest for an antique Welsh dresser lead to entanglement in the lethal puzzle. Granger sets and meets a series of narrative challenges in her sixth mystery, following a daring plot with three (maybe four) murders, multiple killers, some deaths left unresolved and one victim a youngster for whom readers have developed sympathy. Despite the achievements here, readers may still miss such elements (from Murder Among Us) as the Alice Batt Rest Home for Horses and Donkeys and the members of the Society for the Preservation of Historic Bamford.
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