The Time and the Place
β Scribed by Jane Renshaw
- Book ID
- 111616560
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B08QZND5HF
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β¦ Synopsis
Nothing in Claire Castlefordβs career as an undercover cop has quite prepared her for this.
Charged with investigating the murder of a colleague, Claire arrives at Pitfourie in December, woefully unprepared for the rigours of an Aberdeenshire winter, the demands of her job as cook/housekeeper, and her instant feeling of connection with the target, putative murderer Hector Forbes. As she makes a series of disturbing discoveries, Claire struggles to maintain her professional detachment and, her whole career suddenly in jeopardy, must decide where exactly her loyalties lie.
Meanwhile, Damianβs friend Karen, now a school drop-out, has been caught embezzling money from Lornaβs shop. As she takes up with a group of New Age eco-hippies, her experiments with a life of crime are about to get a whole lot more serious...M.F
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