Robin MacFarland is a smart, funny, self-deprecating journalist who works for the Home and Garden section of a major Toronto newspaper while she grapples hilariously with her weight, drinking and spirituality. The city news is slow and Robin has been assigned to dig up a real estate development stor
Plots and Errors
β Scribed by Jill McGown
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK;Bello
- Year
- 1999;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
'I shot someone dead.' He watched for her reaction, and there was more than just surprise in those dark blue eyes; there was something very like respect. 'I got out just over eight years ago.'
'What was it like?'
'Prison?'
She shook her head, smiling slightly. 'Killing someone,' she said.
Andrew and Kathy Cope, the proprietors of a debt-ridden detective agency on the verge of losing their home, are found dead in their fume-filled car. Few doubt that it was suicide.
But Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd does. He knew Kathy, and doesn't believe she was a quitter. And why, he asks DI Judy Hill, were groceries put away on the wrong shelves? Why is Andy Cope's wheelchair still in the boot? Even Kathy's last case is a puzzle. Why, of all the detectives she might have employed, did a member of the super-wealthy Esterbrook family choose to hire the Copes?
That night, the murder of matriarch Angela Esterbrook appears to...
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