Serpent Pool, The - Hardcover

Martin Edwards

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749007893 ISBN 13: 9780749007898

Publisher: ALLISON & BUSBY, 2010

Synopsis

The Lake District's cold case specialist, DCI Hannah Scarlett, is determined to uncover the truth behind Bethany Friend's apparent suicide in the Serpent Pool. Why would Bethany, so afraid of water, drown herself? Hannah fears that her partner, bookseller Marc Amos, is keeping dark secrets. Does he hold the key to Bethany's past - and why was his best customer burnt to death in an Ullswater boathouse? Hannah still carries a torch for Daniel Kind, who is researching Thomas De Quincey and the history of murder. Once Daniel and Hannah suspect connections between Bethany's drowning and a current sequence of killings, death comes dangerously close to home.

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The Serpent Pool DCI Hannah Scarlett is determined to uncover the truth behind Bethany Friend's mysterious drowning in the Serpent Pool. But Hannah's distracted by a new sergeant with a troublesome reputation, a new house, and new cause to doubt her partner--second hand bookseller Marc Amos. One of Marc's best customers has been burned to death in the converted boathouse filled with priceless books. Then Hannah me Full description

Review:

'With evocative descriptions of everything from landscape to cocktail parties, expert plotting, an engaging protagonist and strongly delineated characters, 'The Serpent Pool' is old-fashioned, well-made crime fiction at its best, and the denouement will have you choking on your Kendal mint cake.' LAURA WILSON, THE GUARDIAN --The Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: ALLISON & BUSBY
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0749007893
• ISBN 13: 9780749007898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352