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A charitable body, Robert Barnard

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A charitable body, Robert Barnard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A charitable body

Oclc number

767256581

Responsibility statement

Robert Barnard

Series statement

Wheeler Publihsing large print hardcoverCharlie Peace, book 9

Summary

Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust. It's not long though, before both she and Charlie smell trouble. Walbrook has a lurid history of feuds and treachery that the family might better have kept to themselves. A tentative peace reigns, but when the wreck of a car and the remains of a body turn up in a nearby lake, it soon becomes clear that one of Walbrook's grimmest secrets may date to the years between the two world wars and may involve something much worse than mere malice. With police resources focused on more timely cases, Charlie and Felicity are left to discover that old sins are never forgotten, that "family" means more than a slot on the ancestral tree, and that sometimes there can be a good reason for murder.

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