When Timothy Curwen's check bounces, Dido Hoare is amazed. The morning paper says that Curwen committed suicide, but the police soon suspect murder. Dido's quest leads her down a twisted trail of cover-up and betrayal surrounding Tim's death.
To escape from bad memories and nightmares in London, antiquarian book dealer Dido Hoare takes time off to visit a childhood friend, Lizzy Waring. Lizzy lives in the picturesque village of Somerset with her husband and his family. The Warings own Monksdanes, an idyllic Georgian mansion; it appears the perfect place for an over-active London native to rest and recuperate. At first Dido is enchanted by the surroundings. But it's not long before she realizes, to her dismay, that the postcard beauty is just a façade - there's a much darker reality below the surface. And her best friend is unwillingly at the center of it all; something has gone terribly wrong with Lizzy's life. But what? Lizzie won't say, and her in-laws are a secretive lot. The Waring family code is quite obviously "blood is thicker than water." The rest of the world are outsiders. Nothing is what it seems. Dido is determined to help her old friend. Fighting through a maze of lies and misdemeanors, and ultimately what she suspects is murder, she persists in probing the deep secrets the Warings are guarding. Making some allies and some enemies along the way, Dido uncovers the sinister underbelly to life in the picturesque village. Although aware that she is putting herself in jeopardy, she doggedly brings to light the horrifying truth that is at the center of it all.
Trying to build her fledgling antique book shop in London, Dido Hoare gets a break when the aged former lover of a celebrated American poet offers Dido her prized personal library. But the woman dies in a suspicious fire, and a stolen manuscript winds up in Dido's possession, bringing the police straight to her. With the help of her father, Dido leaves no page unturned to find a clever killer. Martin's Press.
Tim Curwen the ideal customer. But three days after Dido Hoare sells him Charles Dickens's The Haunted Man, her elegant young customer jumps to his death. Not only that: his cheque has bounced. Being as stubborn as the next antiquarian book dealer, Dido sets out to retrieve either the book or her money. Simple? But the book is missing from his flat, and that draws Dido onto a trail from the empty mansion flat to an abandoned house in London's East End, from threat to cover-up, from betrayal to more deaths. Her determination leads her step by step to an unexpected and perilous truth.
When rare book seller Dido Hoare finds herself in danger on the heels of someone else's murder, she enlists her father, Barnabas, in the search for the killer.
Dido Hoare, owner of an antiquarian London bookshop, is unexpectedly named executor of the will of one of her more irregular customers. When his death turns out to be murder, Dido searches for the truth--a guessing game that takes her from abandoned buildings to the Egyptian cultural attache's limo--and ever closer to other people's greedy ghosts. Martin's Press.
Dido and her family find themselves in danger after Phyllis, the family's nanny, is burgled by an odd trio who seem to be looking for something they couldn't find. What could Phyllis have that they want? When her invalid husband is murdered, it becomes clear that his past was not what it seemed.
McLean works in the manuscript division of the National Archives of Canada, and draws extensively on unpublished sources to present a new interpretation of Scottish migration to Canada. Showing how the traditional clan society in western Inverness was disrupted by capitalism, she documents the emigration of nine coherent groups and their attempts to recreate Highland culture in Glengarry County in Ontario. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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