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Dying in the Wool

Frances BrodySeries: Kate Shackleton
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Pages
368
Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Take one quiet Yorkshire village. Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens...Add a measure of mystery. Until the day, that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again.

A sprinkling of scandal. Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father. Has he run off with his mistress, or was he murdered for his mounting coffers? And, Kate Shackleton-amateur sleuth extraordinaire!

Kate Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance? But, as Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed...

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"The first in a planned series introduces a refreshingly complex heroine and adds a fine feeling for the postwar period."
Kirkus
"This well-plotted and atmospheric tale is enriched by technical expertise and a vividly imagined Yorkshire setting. Kate Shackleton joins Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs in a sub-group of young female amateur detectives who survived and were matured by their wartime experiences…. They make excellent heroines."
Literary Review
"Dying in the Wool has a winning heroine, a fresh and fascinating setting, richly detailed and well-woven into the plot, and a mystery that twists and tightens and twists again, before pulling together to a surprising and satisfying solution."
Catriona McPherson, author of Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

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