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Cat's Cradle
On sale
15th November 2001
Price: £5.99
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340768211
An actress dies while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Flora Messel had enemies and she had always been prepared to play cat and mouse to get what she wanted. When the Shepard Agency is hired to investigate La Messel’s death, events conspire to entangle them in a cat’s cradle of mutual disloyalties – with undercurrents of malice and distrust . . .
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Reviews
Reveals Brown as a stylist with a line in sharp dialogue. Part-time PI Elizabeth Blair and partner Max are hired to prove a man innocent of murder. . . The crackling relationship between the principles makes for a higher entertaining read
Lizbie Brown's novel bursts open with all the fanfare of the wedding march . . . She unpicks the flaws in the characters of this intricate mystery
An entertaining story with a classic English village setting, rich in intrigue and deception. Elizabeth . . . Is a lively and perceptive sleuth
Brown is positively lyrical.