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Fatal Feverfew
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Series: Dr Peabody, Book 2
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ISBN10: 1519626061
ISBN13: 9781519626066
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 17 2015
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781519626066
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 17 2015
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lucia arrives at Halcyon Villa to recuperate from viral pneumonia. She brings her husband Howard, her Siamese cat Aphrodite, and no particular intention of getting involved in anything sinister.
But Halcyon Villa is a strange place. Its hostess Zolanda presides over daily herbal tea ceremonies, color therapy sessions, and evening meditations with the intensity of a woman who believes she is the only thing standing between her guests and spiritual collapse. Her husband Rupert, charming, alcoholic, and clearly keeping secrets, runs a private medical practice from the study.
But Halcyon Villa is a strange place. Its hostess Zolanda presides over daily herbal tea ceremonies, color therapy sessions, and evening meditations with the intensity of a woman who believes she is the only thing standing between her guests and spiritual collapse. Her husband Rupert, charming, alcoholic, and clearly keeping secrets, runs a private medical practice from the study.
Then there is the collection of guests: a grieving widow who knits compulsively, a deeply paranoid man working on an algorithm linking the cerebellum to the solar plexus, and a bitter, nearly blind woman called Margot who seems to have no good reason to be at a healing retreat at all.
When Zolanda is found dead in her sleep, and the evidence points uncomfortably towards Lucia, she has no choice but to start asking questions. Quietly, carefully, and with the unexpected help of the portly local GP Dr Peabody, who notices rather more than his bedside manner suggests, Lucia pieces together a story of obsessive love, elaborate disguise, poison hidden in herbal tea, and a grand passion that has curdled into something far darker.
Witty, atmospheric, and beautifully plotted in the tradition of the classic English country house mystery, Fatal Feverfew is a novel about the thin line between madness and wickedness, and about what people will do when love becomes unbearable.
The second novel in Jennifer Barraclough's Dr Peabody trilogy, also including Overdose and Unfaithful Unto Death. Each book stands perfectly alone.
Perfect for fans of classic British cozy mysteries, country house murders, herbal poison plots, and quietly brilliant amateur female detectives.
When Zolanda is found dead in her sleep, and the evidence points uncomfortably towards Lucia, she has no choice but to start asking questions. Quietly, carefully, and with the unexpected help of the portly local GP Dr Peabody, who notices rather more than his bedside manner suggests, Lucia pieces together a story of obsessive love, elaborate disguise, poison hidden in herbal tea, and a grand passion that has curdled into something far darker.
Witty, atmospheric, and beautifully plotted in the tradition of the classic English country house mystery, Fatal Feverfew is a novel about the thin line between madness and wickedness, and about what people will do when love becomes unbearable.
The second novel in Jennifer Barraclough's Dr Peabody trilogy, also including Overdose and Unfaithful Unto Death. Each book stands perfectly alone.
Perfect for fans of classic British cozy mysteries, country house murders, herbal poison plots, and quietly brilliant amateur female detectives.
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