The Cruellest Month - Softcover

Holt, Hazel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603810528 ISBN 13: 9781603810524

Publisher: Coffeetown Press, 2010

Synopsis

Widow Sheila Malory has been looking forward to her stay at the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a chance to research wartime women writers and catch up with old friends from her college years, the one “purely happy” time in her whole life. Her relaxing idyll is interrupted when a librarian, Gwen Richmond, is crushed to death beneath collapsed bookshelves. After the “accident” proves to be murder, Mrs. Malory’s godson Tony, who also works in the library, asks her to help investigate. Gwen was manipulative and unpleasant, so there are no shortage of suspects. The dead woman’s World War II diary reveal dreadful truths that may lead to the killer; they will also force Mrs. Malory to revisit the past in a new and colder light. The Cruellest Month is the second of Hazel Holt’s Mrs. Malory mysteries.

About this title

About the Author:

Hazel Holt has many devoted fans in the United States and Great Britain as a writer of "cozy" British mysteries; she has published nineteen Mrs. Malory novels at last count. She is also known to admirers of Barbara Pym as the friend and biographer who additionally edited Pym's posthumous works.

About this edition

• Publisher: Coffeetown Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1603810528
• ISBN 13: 9781603810524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196