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A Fine Place for Death (Mitchell & Markby 6) : A compelling Cotswold village crime novel of murder and intrigue - Ann Granger

A Fine Place for Death (Mitchell & Markby 6)

A compelling Cotswold village crime novel of murder and intrigue

By: Ann Granger

Paperback | 6 October 1994 | Edition Number 1

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A look into one girl's life sheds light on another girl's death...

Meredith Mitchell and Chief Inspector Markby probe troubled family relationships to find a killer in A Fine Place for Death, the compelling sixth mystery in Ann Granger's Mitchell & Markby series. The perfect read for fans of Kathy Cranston, Agatha Christie and ITV's Midsomer Murders.

'Ingenious... witty... picturesque... amusingly idiosyncratic' - New York Times

In the heart of the leafy Cotswolds a body is found. A teenage girl, probably local, somebody's daughter who went out one evening and didn't come back. It is not long before she is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in 'The Silver Bells' pub and, on the night of her death, was seen leaving with an unknown man.

Chief Inspector Markby's friend Meredith Mitchell has been befriended by another troubled young local girl, Katie Conway. On the surface Lynne and Katie have nothing in common except their age and home town. But could the insights Katie gives Meredith into her difficult family background - an unstable, aristocratic mother, a doting father at the end of his tether, and a scheming resident secretary - throw some light on the other young girl? And, given that forensic evidence now points to Lynne Wills's murder having taken place in the Devaux family mausoleum, on her murder too ...?

What readers are saying about A Fine Place for Death:

'It kept me guessing until the very end. Ann Granger has managed to create believable characters that are both likeable and interesting'

'I recommend this bookand this seriesto anyone who enjoys well written crime novels withinteresting charactersand plots'

'Fantastic twists and turns'

Industry Reviews
Girls will be girls with a vengeance. So Bamford Chief Inspector Alan Markby (Where Old Bones Lie, 1994, etc.) realizes when he tries to find the man who met teenager Lynne Wills just before she said good night at The Silver Bells Tavern and left her dead on a nearby playing field. Lynne's equally young friend Nikki Arnold has a long history of picking up men in pubs. How about Lynne herself? And how about Katie Conway, rebellious daughter of manorial Park House, who shouldn't have any connections at all with that sort of girl, but soon turns up just as dead in her own family mausoleum? As Katie's mismatched parents - neurasthenic heiress Adeline Devaux Conway and her husband, Matthew, who can hardly wait for her to die so he can legitimize his affair with his obliging personal assistant - take turns blaming each other for the tragedy, Inspector Markby and his girlfriend Meredith Mitchell (who, unlike most of these other young ladies, is reassuringly much too old to be called a girlfriend) take turns looking under rocks for suspects, motives, and the antique dresser Meredith has got to have. They find all three, though it's the dresser that ends up revealing the truth about Katie's murder. Interesting people and a nice eye for class distinctions, but the plotting is both uninspired and unbelievable, with two culprits too many. (Kirkus Reviews)

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