Death on the Rocks
A Lucy Trimble Mystery
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2002
- Category
- Women Sleuths, Private Investigators, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550023817
- Publish Date
- May 2002
- List Price
- $19.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554885183
- Publish Date
- May 2002
- List Price
- $6.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780312312763
- Publish Date
- Jun 1999
- List Price
- $21.99
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Description
When private detective Lucy Trimble is retained by Greta Golden to find the identity of the ominous lurking stranger who Greta is certain is following her, it doesn’t appear to be too challenging a mystery. Lucy has no trouble learning who her client’s pursuer is: a British investigator has been engaged to probe into Greta’s life. But the question of what he is trying to discover about Greta, and why, begins to truly complicate the case. This revelation soon opens up further questions about Greta’s own identity and, more specifically, the identities of her mother and father.
Lucy’s investigation leads her to Cornwall, England, where there still live witnesses to Greta’s birth and her father’s death. Lucy slowly begins to put the fragments of the puzzle together, but it is only when Greta joins Lucy in England that she is able to find the missing piece, and begins to confront her own rapidly evolving and more complicated personal life.
About the author
Best known as a writer of award-winning detective fiction, including the Charlie Salter mysteries, Eric Wright has also written a comic novel (Moodies Tale) and Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, his 1999 memoir which was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. (The first chapter of that memoir first appeared in The New Yorker.) Eric helped to set up and was the first director of the publishing program at Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
As in Wrights other novels, there is plenty of wry humour here, and an intriguing storyline supported by interesting secondary characters, lots of local colour, and many promising subplots.
Quill and Quire
Death on the Rocks has all the ingredients for a good mystery...a good read for an afternoon in a deck chair!
NOW Magazine
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