Blood Lies - Softcover

Marianne Macdonald

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ISBN 10: 0340768959 ISBN 13: 9780340768952

Publisher: New English Library, 2001

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Dido loads baby Ben and his toys into the van and drives down to rural Somerset to spend a couple of restful weeks with a cousin. Ally and her husband have moved there to keep an eye on his old parents who live in the local manor house where, four years ago, the family's youngest son shot and killed an intruder in the library. He is about to turn up after having served a term for manslaughter. And there are all sorts of chickens coming home to roost. The village turns out to be very different from St. Mary Mead (consider the drugs traffic in the village pub, for instance). And what on earth has happened to Peter Rabbit?

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About the Author:

Marianne Macdonald was born in Northern Ontario and raised in Winnipeg and Montreal until the age of twenty, when she went to Oxford to do graduate work For the next thirty years she followed an academic career, then gave up teaching to return to the writing she'd loved as a child, and to acting, which she'd also given up after university. She lives in Muswell Hill and her hobbies include photography, old movies, walking her very large dogs, travel, worrying about the socio-economic development of the contemporary world, and taking long hot baths when any of the above threatens to overwhelm her.

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Dido Hoare, Macdonald's quick-minded heroine, comes fully into her own in this episode, as she leaves her antiquarian bookshop in London for a fortnight visit with her oldest friend, Lizzie. Newly pregnant, Lizzie has come to the Somerset village of Alford with her husband to help him keep track of his father, who is slipping steadily into dementia in the ancient pile of a house called Monksdanes. It doesn't take Dido long to find out that there's a lot of dark stuff going on: Lizzie discovers an unknown brother-in-law suddenly come home after a manslaughter conviction; the family of the dead girl in that case has some very odd members; and Lizzie's demented father-in-law is muttering about an extremely rare edition of Peter Rabbit. Dido's skills in the book trade and her offhand adoration of her toddler son, Ben--who fits as smoothly into her investigations as does her father, the inimitable Barnabas--play well against the classic quaintness of Somerset, with its very modern crimes and misdemeanors. GraceAnne DeCandido
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