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Up-and-coming painter, Sandra Telford, races down the platform to catch her train to London.
Two hours later she's found dead at her seat. At her feet is a portfolio containing millions of pounds worth of unlisted artwork - and a single sprig of sea lavender.
Inspector Piet Deventer, an art lover himself, is put on the case. The victim is the former lover of an escaped convict, the mastermind behind one of the largest gold robberies of the century - and Piet suspects the two cases might be connected.
Struggling for leads, Piet enlists the help of Sally Graham, a friend of the victim, to help with his investigation. But with a dangerous criminal on the loose, Piet will need all his wits about him - so it doesn't help that he finds himself falling in love . . .
A Sprig of Sea Lavender is J.R.L. Anderson's first mystery featuring Piet Deventer, and is an unmissable read for all lovers of English crime. JRL Anderson was an author of fourteen mystery stories and numerous works of non-fiction. He was a journalist at the Guardian for many years, before retiring to pursue his career as an author. He had a life-long interest in sailing and adventure, which results in many of his novels (as his original author biography from the 1970s puts it) ending 'with an exciting sea chase in a small boat'. Murder and theft off the Suffolk coast: the first mystery starring the precocious Piet Deventer A classic English murder mystery from a master of 1970s crime The first of a three-part series featuring the new young detective Piet Deventer Perfect for readers of Agatha Christie and Ian Samson (whose The Norfolk Mystery
was a recent selection for the Waterstones Book Club) Zaffre will be republishing Anderson's entire backlist of 14 novels
Two hours later she's found dead at her seat. At her feet is a portfolio containing millions of pounds worth of unlisted artwork - and a single sprig of sea lavender.
Inspector Piet Deventer, an art lover himself, is put on the case. The victim is the former lover of an escaped convict, the mastermind behind one of the largest gold robberies of the century - and Piet suspects the two cases might be connected.
Struggling for leads, Piet enlists the help of Sally Graham, a friend of the victim, to help with his investigation. But with a dangerous criminal on the loose, Piet will need all his wits about him - so it doesn't help that he finds himself falling in love . . .
A Sprig of Sea Lavender is J.R.L. Anderson's first mystery featuring Piet Deventer, and is an unmissable read for all lovers of English crime. JRL Anderson was an author of fourteen mystery stories and numerous works of non-fiction. He was a journalist at the Guardian for many years, before retiring to pursue his career as an author. He had a life-long interest in sailing and adventure, which results in many of his novels (as his original author biography from the 1970s puts it) ending 'with an exciting sea chase in a small boat'. Murder and theft off the Suffolk coast: the first mystery starring the precocious Piet Deventer A classic English murder mystery from a master of 1970s crime The first of a three-part series featuring the new young detective Piet Deventer Perfect for readers of Agatha Christie and Ian Samson (whose The Norfolk Mystery
was a recent selection for the Waterstones Book Club) Zaffre will be republishing Anderson's entire backlist of 14 novels