Murder on Mustique / Anne Glenconner.
By: Glenconner, Anne.
Publisher: Leicester : Thorpe, 2021Description: 318 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444847864.Subject(s): Coral reefs and islands -- Fiction | Severe storms -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Mustique (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return.Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile is the island's only fully trained police officer. He contacts Lord and Lady Blake, who bought the island decades ago. Jasper is in St Lucia designing a new village of luxury villas but Lady Veronica catches a plane immediately. Her beloved god-daughter, Lily, is on the island and this disappearance has alarming echoes of what happened to Lily's mother years ago.When Amanda's body is found, a murder investigation begins. But the local community isn't co-operating. And then the storm hits, and someone else disappears...| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return.Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile is the island's only fully trained police officer. He contacts Lord and Lady Blake, who bought the island decades ago. Jasper is in St Lucia designing a new village of luxury villas but Lady Veronica catches a plane immediately. Her beloved god-daughter, Lily, is on the island and this disappearance has alarming echoes of what happened to Lily's mother years ago.When Amanda's body is found, a murder investigation begins. But the local community isn't co-operating. And then the storm hits, and someone else disappears...
Adult.