The Lamorna Wink : A Richard Jury Mystery by Martha Grimes

While Richard Jury has been sent on a dead end chase by Chief Superintendent Racer, Melrose Plants heads for Cornwall to take up temporary residence in an old Cornish manor. Unfortunately, Lady Ardry boards BritRail and follows him to Bletchley House, which sits high on a rocky promontory overlooking the sea like the set of a romantic old film.

Bletchley Village is dominated by a stately home turned Hospice, thanks to the billionaire, Morris Bletchley, the American owner of a chain of fast food eateries. He is also the grandfather of two small children who died mysteriously at Bletchley House years before.

While having tea in the Woodbine Tea Room with Agatha, Plant is served by Johnny Wells, a young lad who manages a smile despite the disappearance of his beloved aunt, Chris. Seduced by the whole notion of the disappearance of aunts, Melrose calls Brian Macalvie, Commander of the Devon and Cornwall police, to find Macalvie is in the near-by Hamlet of Lamorna Cove, where the body of a woman is found in the surrounding Bluebell Wood. Macalvie and Plant repair to Lamorna's only pub, The Wink, but have barely sampled the local ale before another murder occurs, this one at the hospice.

Macalvie's past, Plant's past, and the tragic past of the Bletchleys, converge at the end with Richard Jury, who comes to set things right.
"One of the finest voices of our time. Martha Grimes is poetry." --Patricia Cornwell
"One of the established masters of the genre." --Newsweek
"Grimes nimbly orchestrates the suspense, giving the reader a sense of impending disaster."--The New York Times

About the Author
Martha Grimes is the author of eighteen novels, fifteen of them Richard Jury mysteries, the most recent being The Stargazey and The Case Has Altered, a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

 

 

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