Terror on Tuesday (Lois Meade Series #2)

by Ann Purser

Overview

Working-class mum and housecleaner Lois Meade plies her sleuthing skills once again after discovering a dead body--dressed in a suit of armor--in a chapel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101567623
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/03/2004
Series:	Lois Meade Series , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	496,347
File size:	417 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ann Purser was born in Market Harborough in Leicestershire and has lived most of her life in villages. She has turned her hand to many things, including journalist (as a columnist for SHE magazine), keeper of hens and donkeys, art gallery owner, clerical assistant in a village school, Open University graduate, novelist, mother of three, wife of Philip Purser, critic, and writer. She is an avid reader of detective stories.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The honest, down-to-earth Lois [is] certain to appeal."—Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

Not exactly terror, perhaps, but skullduggery of all sorts greets housecleaner Lois Meade when she opens a cleaning service in the village of Long Farnden. In gathering workers for New Brooms, Lois (Murder on Monday, 2002) interviews three candidates--brassy Joanne Murphy, a slattern she briskly rejects; Sheila Stratford, who seems ideal; and young Gary Needham, who figures he might as well pass the time waiting to play guitar for a rock band by doing the only thing he’s good at--and adds two more--Bridie Reading, her best friend, and Bridie’s spirited daughter Hazel. Bridie’s abusive husband Dick has always violently objected to his daughter’s tending bar at the Tresham Arms, most recently because he’s caught her sitting with Major John Todd-Nelson in the Major’s car, but that problem at least is at an end. While Lois is waiting to speak to Sheila, she stops in at the churchyard adjoining the upscale hotel across the street and finds that the armored knight surmounting an ancient tomb is actually the Major’s corpse. The grisly discovery is only the first of a series of revelations of drug use, unwanted pregnancy and abortion, pornography, and pedophilia that DI Hunter Cowgill can only pray won’t put Long Farnden and neighboring Waltonby on the tabloids’ radar for keeps. A modest village mystery most notable for the careful way Purser roots every shocking malfeasance in the rhythms and woes of ordinary working-class family life.

Kirkus Reviews

"The honest, down-to-earth Lois [is] certain to appeal."—Publishers Weekly

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