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Death on the isle / M.H. Eccleston.

By: Eccleston, M. H.
Series: Astrid Swift: Publisher: Head of Zeus -- an Aries book, 2023Description: 336 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781803280394 (pbk.) :; 1803280395 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Crime | Crime | Crime & mystery fiction | Isle of Wight (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories.Summary: It's high summer and, with the grisly events at Dorset's Sherborne Hall behind her, Astrid Swift sets sail for the Isle of Wight. She's been asked to value a collection of maritime art owned by a recently deceased millionaire. His surviving daughter has inherited the art along with the family's seafront mansion, 'The Needle's Eye,' and wants to sell up. There are too many memories of her twin sister, a sailing prodigy who went missing at sea three years earlier. When Victor Leech, the local busybody, is found washed up under the town pier, Astrid thinks lightning has struck twice. She's stumbled on a fresh case that only she and her new art club friends can solve. But getting to the bottom of the unexplained death will draw out powerful new enemies.
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It's high summer and, with the grisly events at Dorset's Sherborne Hall behind her, Astrid Swift sets sail for the Isle of Wight. She's been asked to value a collection of maritime art owned by a recently deceased millionaire. His surviving daughter has inherited the art along with the family's seafront mansion, 'The Needle's Eye,' and wants to sell up. There are too many memories of her twin sister, a sailing prodigy who went missing at sea three years earlier. When Victor Leech, the local busybody, is found washed up under the town pier, Astrid thinks lightning has struck twice. She's stumbled on a fresh case that only she and her new art club friends can solve. But getting to the bottom of the unexplained death will draw out powerful new enemies.

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