Letty Davenport seeks to infiltrate a group of freelance hackers in order to thwart their next project-or maybe to help it along. Lightweight but no-nonsense and genuinely brainy, like Anthony Horowitz without all the meta. Are the deaths linked by a common school background, a fondness for rowing, or a Mark Rothko painting Elliot sold to Stefan more than 30 years ago?
Since Andy Bishop, the solicitor who seems to have robbed Iqbal of a hefty legacy from the late Ezra Harrington, also produces an alibi for his murder, the four women have their work cut out for them. Now even Malik is persuaded that the two men have been killed by someone who’s presumably targeting a third victim, and over the objections of her own staff, she deputizes the amateur sleuths to work with her. Briefly discouraged when the obvious suspect, auction house owner Elliot Howard, with whom Stefan had publicly quarreled, proves to have an ironclad alibi, they redouble their efforts when cabdriver Iqbal Kassam is found shot to death in his home wearing a Hope medallion. So Judith, struck by the Faith medallion adorning Stefan’s body, decides to investigate on her own-or rather, with the help of Becks Starling, wife of the vicar of All Saints Church, and dogwalker Suzie Harris.
Next morning, when Judith finds her neighbor shot in the head, Malik naturally says his death was probably an accident or suicide. But DS Tanika Malik, of the Maidenhead Police Station, brushes off her report as a likely car backfire. When crossword compiler Judith Potts hears a shout and a bang from the yard of neighboring art gallery owner Stefan Dunwoody, she’s convinced he’s been shot. The creator of the Death in Paradise series ( Murder in the Caribbean, 2018, etc.) crafts a triple-decker puzzle in a Thames-side English village.
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