Murder in House (Ellie Quicke Mysteries, 10) - Hardcover

Heley, Veronica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727879553 ISBN 13: 9780727879554

Publisher: Severn House, 2011

Synopsis

Ellie and her new husband Thomas are suffering from terrible colds when called to deal with Ursula, a young student, who has staged a sit-in at church and refuses to move. Ursula challenges Ellie to solve three mysteries: a broken engagement, her friend Mia's disappearance, and a murder. As she investigates, Ellie begins to suspect that there is more to these events than anyone is willing to admit. Soon she finds her own friends and family targeted as a powerful group hunts her down.

Meanwhile Ellie's ever-demanding daughter Diana makes herself homeless, and her architect cousin lands himself in yet another financial mess. Both become caught up in the race to ruin Ellie before she can produce the dreadful evidence of corruption and abuse that is haunting the council chambers. Every lead returns to Ursula, who has not been entirely open with the truth. But what can one young girl do, against such a powerful family?

About this title

About the Author:

Veronica Heley (www.veronicaheley.com) has published more than fifty books, including crime fiction, historical, and children's titles. She is currently involved in the Ellie Quicke series of crime stories and a variety of other projects. A full-time writer, she has been married to a London probation officer since 1964, and has one musician daughter.

From Publishers Weekly:

In British author Heley's fine 10th Ellie Quicke mystery (after 2008's Murder in the Park), nosy Ellie, recently married to her minister, must try to solve a missing persons case. After Ursula Belton, a distraught university student, stages a sit-in vigil at Ellie's husband's church, Ellie's drawn into searching for Ursula's best friend, Mia Prior. Mia disappeared after the drunken fatal fall of a male friend during the opening of posh Prior's Place, a new block of upscale flats owned by Mia's high-profile developer stepdad. As Ellie probes into Mia's background, she comes under the radar of a gang led by Anthony and Timothy Prior, Mia's stepbrothers. They stalk Ellie, Ursula's mother and even Ellie's daughter, Diana, hoping to find where battered Mia and Ursula have escaped to. More strong-coffee crime than weak-tea cozy, Heley's unflinching take on just how low unscrupulous businessmen may go during recessionary times is an eye-opener. (Sept.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0727879553
• ISBN 13: 9780727879554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352