Review #117
A Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley Mystery
Aggressively career-minded, Isabelle Ardery, the new acting superintendent of London's Metropolitan Police, manages to lure retired Detective Inspector, Thomas Lynley, back from Cornwall to look into a murder case. Lynley returns, even though, he is still grieving the deaths of his wife and unborn child.
The murder victim is Jemima Hastings, a young woman who, nine months before, abruptly left her thriving cupcake business and her boyfriend, roof-thatcher, Gordon Jossie, in Hampshire and moved to London. Hastings’ body turned up in a London cemetery. Along with suspects in both London and Hampshire and… numerous leads to follow and… interviews to conduct, Ardery also, manages to raise the hackles of Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers (Lynley’s former partner), Det. Insp. John Stewart, and other members of the investigating team.
While the author confounds readers with a complex array of evidence, motives, and possible solutions, she also, throws in a second, seemingly unrelated, case of the horrific murder of a toddler by three young boys.
Details about the craft of thatching and the care of the ponies that roam freely in Hampshire's New Forest, a former royal hunting ground, make this an informative as well as an entertaining novel.
(21 audio discs or 640 pages)
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