If You Go Down to the Woods - Hardcover

Meek, M R D

9780727856470: If You Go Down to the Woods

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727856472 ISBN 13: 9780727856470

Publisher: Severn House, 2001

Newtown Woods: throughout the centuries children have disappeared and now schoolgirl Elinor de Lisle has been missing for twenty-four hours. When her body is found, Lennox Kemp gets involved with the case, and the whole community has to endure media attention and police intrusion -- particularly a young sufferer of multiple personality syndrome . . .

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About the Author:

meek was born in scotland, educated in england and has lived for some timein germany. she studied at london university and the college of law and has practised in the home counties and cornwall as a solicitor.

From Publishers Weekly:

Mystery fans know there's nothing cozier than curling up with a good murder in the shire, as in Lennox Kemp's 11th case which is as cozy as a pair of warm slippers on a winter's night. Lennox and his wife, Mary, live in the suburban town of Newton, which has so far escaped the urban ills of London, but the locals are beginning to worry about a teenage gang ostensibly led by a young woman, Lily Egerton, whom respectable people suspect of procuring drugs. So far the gang's "crimes" (as the neighbors see them) have been no more than pranks, but when a girl is found murdered in the gang's den in the woods, the police come after Lily. Lily's a bizarre character who appears to change personalities at will which leads some to believe she's a genuine case of multiple personalities. But is she a murderer? If not and there's a very real possibility she might be she's at least the key to the mystery. British author Meek (Postscript to Murder; This Blessed Plot; Touch and Go; etc.) is a plot magician who knows how to distract the reader from the significant facts until she's ready to reveal their importance. She plays fair with her clues. The astute reader can follow the same process as the detective and arrive at the killer's identity. Smart but never pedantic or pretentious, Meek is certain to please those who appreciate the traditional English police procedural.

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