The Death at Yew Corner

A no-nonsense politician and her children’s author husband search for answers to a retirement-home homicide in this gripping small-town murder mystery.

Fabian Bunting wheels herself down the hallway of the nursing home, opera glasses clutched in her gnarled old hands. Outside, nurses on strike have formed a picket line, and Fabian wants to watch the commotion. As she peers through her binoculars, she sees something incredible: two men beating another senseless and tossing the victim into the back of a van. One of the thugs sees her, and before she can call for help, he has raced upstairs and tossed the helpless old woman into a scalding steam bath to boil alive.

In her younger days, Fabian was a brilliant scholar, and the favourite professor of Connecticut politician Bea Wentworth, who has just been defeated in a re-election campaign. Bea refuses to believe her old teacher’s death was an accident and begins investigating. With the help of her husband, Lyon, a hot-air ballooning children’s author, she’ll find the answers to Fabian’s grisly murder lie at the centre of an impossible locked-room puzzle.

The Lyon and Bea Wentworth Mysteries are unique for their blend of traditional mystery elements and hard-driving, page-turning action. “This is the most traditional book in the series to date, ” wrote the New York Times. “It also may be the best. ”

The Death at Yew Corner is the 5th book in the Lyon and Bea Wentworth Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

“Forrest writes with a sure hand, and as always, leavens the writing with a touch of humour… . A neat, well-plotted, expertly written job. ” —The New York Times

Praise for the Lyon and Bea Wentworth Mysteries

“A superb novel of detection … An intricate plot intelligently controlled. ” —Publishers Weekly on A Child’s Garden of Death

“The writing is stylish and the plotting swift and well knit: a pleasure. ” —Booklist on The Pied Piper of Death

© 2016 MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (E-bok): 9781504037877

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E-bok: 16. august 2016