Another Man's Poison - Softcover

Cleeves, Ann

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ISBN 10: 0449148505 ISBN 13: 9780449148501

Publisher: Fawcett, 1993

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When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, elderly Ursula Ottway threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-preservationist. Within hours, Ursula is dead . . . by the same illegal poison. Now, as George and Molly Palmer-Jones reconstruct Ursula's last days, it becomes clear that her sharp eyes and long memory had posed a deadly threat not only to Marcus, but to his chilly wife, his alienated offspring, and others. To bring a killer to justice, Molly and George must uproot a lifetime's worth of secrets and expose a nest of vicious human vultures.

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About the Author:

Ann Cleeves is the author behind ITV's VERA and BBC One's SHETLAND. She has written over twenty-five novels, and is the creator of detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez - characters loved both on screen and in print. Her books have now sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of 'Murder Squad', working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. In 2006 Ann was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (CWA Gold Dagger) for Best Crime Novel, for Raven Black, the first book in her Shetland series. In 2012 she was inducted into the CWA Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame. Ann lives in North Tyneside.

www.anncleeves.com

From AudioFile:

Alexander John performs this book; he doesn't simply read it. With the British accent the setting demands, John becomes alternately harsh and guttural, then educated and even foppish. He enunciates the women characters with equal aplomb. So one settles back for a manor-house mystery (sort of) as if in an old familiar chair, with a brandy at one's side. The story concerns the poisoning of a busybody and the opportunities practically everybody in the area had to do the old girl in. All of the suspects are associated in some way with the most powerful landholding family in the region. Tallyho! D.R.W. � AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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