Warning at One (Lois Meade Mystery) - Hardcover

Purser, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425223744 ISBN 13: 9780425223741

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 2008

Synopsis

Cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Lois Meade has a personal stake in her latest investigation when her son Douglas becomes a prime suspect in the killings of a cantankerous elderly neighbor, Clem Fitch, and his noisy pet rooster. By the author of Sorrow on Sunday.

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About the Author:

Ann Purser was born in Leicestershire, and has lived in villages most her life. SheÂ's been a journalist for SHE magazine, clerical assistant, novelist, critic, keeper of hens and donkeys, wife, mother of three, and grandmother of three, and has also run an art gallery. She is an avid reader of detective stories.

From Booklist:

Purser’s Lois Meade series has covered village crime from Monday through Sunday (e.g., Murder on Monday, 2002). Now, she is working through every hour of the day—a new wrinkle in our 24/7 world. Meade, proprietor of the New Brooms cleaning business, makes a handy police consultant, as cleaners know all about their clients’ dirt. This time that involves retiree Clem Fitch, who lives with his pet cockerel in the village of Tresham. The rooster enjoys waking all the neighbors at very early hours of the morning. Those neighbors include Lois’ son, Douglas, and a nearly blind older woman, whose irascible son hires Lois’ firm to  clean her mother’s home. When Clem and his pet are murdered, Lois assists her friend, Detective Inspector Hunter Cowgill, in solving the case. Purser uses dramatic irony effectively, letting the reader know more than her sleuths do and allowing us to watch as they pull the pieces together. This novel’s denouement doesn’t have quite the shock value typical of this series, but the story is thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless. --Judy Coon

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0425223744
• ISBN 13: 9780425223741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320