Murder at Tremawney Heights
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My review -
I’m
an unashamed fan of Beverley Carter’s novellas.
You don’t always want to be reading War and Peace and it’s great to have
something lighter you can read in an evening.
If you’ve read The House on Tremawney Hill, you’ll have met some of
these characters. Alison owns the estate
agency where Laura, main character for the earlier novella, and Denise,
Alison’s step daughter, also work.
Denise and Alison have a lovely, bantering and believable relationship
and these characters are nicely drawn.
When
you tell your kids not to get mixed up with the wrong sort, you don’t usually
mean the well-to-do! Denise’s new
boyfriend introduces her to his rich but unpleasantly dysfunctional
family. She is later asked by his mother
to sell one of their properties and finds a body there. Within the limits of a novella it’s hard to
give minor characters much depth but still, the bland Mallowry, the waspish Victoria
and the drunken, lecherous Toby made an impression on me and on the story. I didn’t predict the ending, which had
another layer of surprise too. From the fact that there is an unresolved
sub-plot, I assume there’s a possible further visit to Tremawney in store. I look forward to it!
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