Dont Mess With Mrs In-Between (Pi Grace Smith Mysteries) - Softcover

Evans, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752842978 ISBN 13: 9780752842974

Publisher: Orion Pub Co, 2005

Synopsis

Grace Smith is hired to investigate a group of people photographed in a grocery store by wealthy Barbra Delaney, who plans to bequeath her considerable fortune to one of them in an effort to stop her son from trying to kill her.

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About the Author

Liz Evans is in her early forties. She has worked in all sorts of companies from plastic moulding manufacturers to Japanese banks through to film production and BBC Radio. She was born in Highgate, went to school in Barnet and now lives in Hertfordshire.

Reviews

Evans's (Barking!) hip, zany PI, Grace Smith, has landed in the midst of mischief once again, and as always, her investigation provides plenty of laughs, fast-moving action and suspense. What kind of person decides to leave a considerable fortune to total strangers? Grace is about to find out when Barbra Delaney retains her services to trace a group of people she photographed at the grocery store. One or more of them may become her beneficiaries. Beneath the sunshine and bucolic splendor of Seatoun, Grace's stomping ground, none-too-savory activities are in progress. For starters, Barbra thinks her grown son may be trying to do her in. In no time, Grace encounters a dead body, a smuggling ring, a gorgeous man in drag and enough tangled family relationships to make celibacy seem viable. In addition, she must contend with an eccentric cast of locals whose agendas are, more often than not, at odds with her own. Evans excels at describing life in a small village. As Carter, the postmistress's grandson says, "It's deadsville, this place. It's where lobotomy donors go to retire." Once Grace is on the scene things certainly liven up. Whether suffering from food poisoning or the effects of twenty-mile bike rides when her car breaks down, she's always on the case, even if she doesn't have a clue where it will lead.
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The best thing about Evans' books is her feisty, outrageous,outspoken heroine, private investigator Grace Smith. The next bestthing is Evans' off-the-wall, in-your-face humor. With their fanciful(if sometimes byzantine) plots and colossal casts of wackycharacters, the stories are a sheer delight for readers in need of anescape from this all-too-serious world. In her latest adventure,Londoner Grace is about to turn 30, and her resulting"life-is-so-over" depression is only relieved when she takes on acase for an oddball millionairess who wants to leave her fortune to agroup of strangers she photographed outside the local conveniencestore. Trouble is, she didn't bother to ask their names, and now shewants Grace to track them down. Typically, it isn't that simple, asGrace quickly finds herself dealing with a gory murder, a member ofParliament who's being blackmailed, the discovery of an illegalimmigrant ring, a weird encounter with a transvestite, and a bad caseof food poisoning. Still, it keeps her mind off the over-the-hillblues. Emily Melton
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Edition details

• Publisher: Orion Pub Co
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752842978
• ISBN 13: 9780752842974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406