The Book Lady (Millson and Scobie Crime Thrillers 3)
By Malcolm Forsythe
EVEN THE MOST RESPECTABLE PEOPLE HAVE SECRETS. SOMETIMES THOSE SECRETS GET THEM KILLED.
Janet West and Laura Stebbing run a mobile library, touring the villages of north-east Essex on a schedule as precise as a railway timetable. Janet brings books to the lonely and housebound, and reads to them, too.
Then Janet’s body is found by a fisherman on the bank of the River Colne. Her blonde hair is blood-soaked and she’s missing a shoe.
Chief Inspector Millson naturally wonders why anyone would murder such a respectable and well-liked woman.
But he and Detective Sergeant Scobie soon discover that there was more to Janet’s life than the library. A lot more.
PRAISE FOR MALCOLM FORSYTHE:
‘Forsythe carves out retribution with a scalpel.’ The Sunday Times
‘An excellent crime jigsaw.’ Bolton Evening News
‘A feast for readers with a taste for epic theatrics, innuendo, and bodies buried in the garage.’ Kirkus
‘Deft and skillful running of two mysteries in tandem.’ Yorkshire Post
‘An engrossing pace, a difficult mystery, and a cast of full-bodied characters.’ Booklist
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