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 A Touch of Mortality - Ann Granger
Description: ISBN 0312152310 / Author: Ann Granger / Genre: Fiction / Ann Granger has worked in British embassies in various parts of the world. She ... more  A Touch of Mortality - Ann Granger ... met her husband, who was also working for the British Embassy, in Prague and together they received postings to places as far apart as Munich and Lusaka. They are now permanently based in Oxfordshire.Newest Review: ... which this is one, and which is very much of the traditional Agatha Christie style of writing, and the Fran Varady series, ... more ... which are very modern and up-to-date. Having read both, I think that both have merit, but as I am more of a fan of the traditional style of crime fiction than anything else, the Mitchell and Markby novels are my preferred choice.
Although my preferred choice, that isn't to say that I particularly like the main characters - Meredith Mitchell and Alan Markby. Meredith is a civil servant who works for the Foreign Office, although obviously based in the UK for the course of this book. We find out little about her really, ...more |
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Format: paperback (A format), Publisher: Headline Publishing Grou
Pages: 320, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Headline - Books/Subjects ... |
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A Touch of Mortality - Ann Granger: A Mitchell and Markby murder mystery (657 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 08.10.07 (Very useful, 100 readings)
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Sally Caswell persuades her husband to leave London to live a more peaceful life in rural Oxfordshire. Unfortunately, her life has become anything but peaceful. Her husband is quarrelsome, particularly with the elderly next-door neighbour. Then something happens that makes Sally fear for her husband's safety - a letter bomb arrives and she presumes that because her husband works with animals, he is being targeted by animal rights activists and they frequently receive anonymous threats in the post. Then the next-door neighbour dies, apparently by accident, but could it have been murder? Sally's friend, Meredith Mitchell and her boyfriend, Superintendent Markby, certainly ...
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