Losing Ground
β Scribed by Aird, Catherine
- Book ID
- 107699781
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Series
- Sloan and Crosby 21
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312368890
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Fans have waited two years for another of Aird's Calleshire County police procedurals, and if you like golf, this well-crafted whodunit was especially worth the wait....Full of poetical, biblical and Shakespearian references, this fun read delivers a denouement that finishes the game well under par. Nicely played."
--Publishers Weekly on Hole in One
"Trust mystery writer Catherine Aird to add her own special twists and lots of biting wit to murder...the settings are classic, the characters delightfully quirky, and the words of wisdom many." --Boston Herald on Amendment of Life
The dramatic theft of an 18th Century painting is discovered just moments before the old manor house from which it was stolen -- and is uniquely depicted in the background of the portrait -- is set on fire. Making matters more grisly even is the pile of bones that is sighted in the blazing inferno moments before the roof collapses. What started as simple, if... Ο‘μ―¦λ
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