Theft on Thursday (Lois Meade Series #4)

by Ann Purser

Overview

A friend has asked working-class mother and housecleaner Lois Meade to help crack a case. It looks like the handsome new choirmaster may have been poisoned. Soon, Lois finds herself untangling a web of secrets, bigotry, and intrigue-and can't let the culprits get away clean.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425207475
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/07/2006
Series:	Lois Meade Series , #4
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.70(d)
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.

Editorial Reviews

A vicar brings a troubled past and an equally dicey future to his new pulpit at Long Farnden. It isn't clear why Brian Rollison asks his godson, Sandy Mackerras, to be choirmaster at his new church. Sandy is endlessly insolent to him in the home they're sharing at the vicarage until Brian can round up digs in the nearby metropolis of Tresham. And Sandy nearly sends the choir into revolt, first by changing all the old tunes, then by slighting Farnden's leading citizen, Mrs. Tollivery-Jones, and then by romancing two of the singers, walleyed wallflower Sharon and perky schoolteacher Rebecca, who's lived for years with Bill Stockbridge. Still, Brian seems not only determined to put up with Sandy but to regard himself as somehow in Sandy's debt. When a fire at the vicarage has deadly results, Brian goes to pieces, leaving Lois Meade (Terror on Tuesday, 2003, etc.) to take over. Lois has several stakes in the investigation. Sharon and Bill both work for her cleaning service, and her son Jamie has been dating Annabelle Tollivery-Jones, who's involved with a hate group led by mysterious Max Wedderburn, a group that held a rally the night of the fire. But Lois's mother, Gran Weedon, fears that another motive-Lois's love/hate relationship with Chief Inspector Hunter Cowgill-may provide a not-so-innocent motive as well. For all its complications, though, Purser's latest village puzzler is all village and no puzzle.

Kirkus Reviews