Amateur sleuth Astrid Swift investigates a maritime mystery in this cosy crime adventure set on the Isle of Wight.The sailors are ashore, and murder is afoot.It's summer in the Isle of Wight, and the islanders have little more to do than munch crab sandwiches, sip pints of Wight Squirrel, and compla
A Double Death on the Black Isle
β Scribed by A. D. Scott
- Book ID
- 109252452
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Series
- Joanne Ross 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781439154946
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β¦ Synopsis
Two Women, Two Murders . . .
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A stunning and suspenseful story of families, betrayal, and a community divided.
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Nothing is ever quite at peace on Scotlands Black Islethe Traveling people are forever at odds with the locals, the fishermen have nothing in common with the farmers, and the villages have no connection with the town. But when two deaths occur on the same day, involving the same families from the same estatethe Black Isle seems as forbidding as its name.
Joanne Ross, typist at the Highland Gazette , is torn whether to take on the plum task of reporting on these murdersafter all, the woman at the center of both crimes is one of her closest friends. Joanne knows the story could be her big break, and for a woman in the mid-1950sa single mother, no lessgood work is hard to come by.
But the investigation by the staff on the Gazette reveals secrets that will forever change this quiet, remote part of...
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