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Jean Loftus has lived at Ashe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the garden, speak to an orderly, gracious, supremely English life. But when workmen unearth a skeleton from that garden, the skeletons from Jean's past begin rising to the surface. The life they speak of a childhood in Revolutionary Russia, chaotic years as a refugee between the two world wars?was neither orderly nor English. Zita Daunsey, Jean's neighbor in this cozy Sussex town, would like to help Jean protect her secrets. But this task is made more difficult with the sudden arrival of a mysterious, aggressively inquisitive Russian student. What aging sin is Jean so anxious to conceal? And ...

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Jean Loftus has lived at Ashe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the garden, speak to an orderly, gracious, supremely English life. But when workmen unearth a skeleton from that garden, the skeletons from Jean's past begin rising to the surface. The life they speak of a childhood in Revolutionary Russia, chaotic years as a refugee between the two world wars?was neither orderly nor English. Zita Daunsey, Jean's neighbor in this cozy Sussex town, would like to help Jean protect her secrets. But this task is made more difficult with the sudden arrival of a mysterious, aggressively inquisitive Russian student. What aging sin is Jean so anxious to conceal? And at what point does Zita become an accomplice to it?

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Discerning mystery fans in search of hard-to-find and out-of-print literary gems should keep an eye on Felony & Mayhem Press, a Manhattan-based crime fiction reprint-publishing house launched in 2005 by Maggie Topkis, co-owner of the renowned Partners in Crime bookstore in Greenwich Village. Felony & Mayhem has unearthed another jewel in The Accomplice by Elizabeth Ironside, a bestselling mystery author in England (A Very Private Enterprise, Death in the Garden, et al.) whose works have been essentially unavailable in the States.

Originally published in 1996, the novel revolves around the narrative of three compelling female characters: Yevgenia Chornoroukaya (a.k.a. Jean Loftus), a Baltic-Russian aristocrat who fled wartorn Europe during WWII and eventually transformed herself into a middle-class Englishwoman; Zita Daunsey, Yevgenia's attorney and longtime friend; and conniving student Xenia, who will do anything to escape her existence in modern-day Russia. When the skeleton of a boy is found buried in a rose garden owned by the elderly Yevgenia, the investigation of an obsessed detective -- coupled with the arrival of a manipulative 21-year-old student allegedly related to Yevgenia -- forces the arthritic woman to relive horrific memories long buried: for good reason.

Another noteworthy selling point of this novel is the author's fascinating background. Elizabeth Ironside is actually a pseudonym for Lady Catherine Manning, the Oxford-educated wife of Sir David Manning, a globe-trotting English diplomat who is currently the British ambassador to the United States. Her impressive diplomatic sojourns (in India, Russia, Poland, France, Israel, and elsewhere) aside, Ironside is a masterful storyteller whose highly literate, evocative prose and richly described characters -- past and present -- make The Accomplice an absolute must-read for fans of authors like Ruth Rendell, P. D. James, and Jacqueline Winspear. American mystery aficionados will be undoubtedly emailing Topkis en masse thanking her and everyone at Felony & Mayhem for finally making Ironside's novels available in the States: This is British crime fiction at its very best. Paul Goat Allen
Marilyn Stasio
Although we tend to follow the account of Zita Daunsey, a close family friend and neighbor, Ironside exercises such subtle restraint on the story — told from multiple perspectives in alternating chapters covering a half-century of events — that its complexity can’t be fully appreciated until the very end. For the purposes of the plot, these distinctive internal voices bind the story together, but an outside observer can only wonder what would happen if everyone blurted out their open, unguarded thoughts at the next garden party.
— The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933397504
  • Publisher: Felony & Mayhem, LLC
  • Publication date: 10/15/2006
  • Pages: 356
  • Sales rank: 639,208
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.90 (d)

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    A fascinating English cozy

    In Broad Woodham, England under the roses of Asshe House, as elderly Jean Loftus after four plus decades living there moves out so her stepson and his family can move in, the bony remains of a child are found by workers. Detective Superintendent Stevens assumes the bones belong to a young boy who vanished without a trace three decades ago. Jean wonders if the connection goes further east to her homeland Soviet Russia where she was born Yevgenia Konstantinovna Chornorouskya, but decides to do nothing except move on.---------------------- However, a Russian teenager Xenia has brought back other unpleasant memories of her fatherland that Yevgenia would prefer to forget. Her best friend, attorney Zita Daunsey tries to help Jean cope though not understanding of what, but also decides to investigate what happened to the dead child as well as her pal¿s mysterious past that is she makes inquiries in between attending tea parties and caring for her disabled son Tom with the help of ¿nurse¿ Lynne.-------------------- This is as much a garden tea party as a mystery. THE ACCOMPLICE is an odd somewhat fascinating English cozy that draws readers into the storyline. The more appealing character is Zita, whose life is tediously filled with responsibility as all revolves around Tom so a wee mystery adds spice though she seems to know more than she lets on. Readers will skip the tea segues, but want to learn more about just who Jean is, why she hid her identity four decades ago and how does the deceased child tie back to her in this English modern manners mystery.----------------- Harriet Klausner

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