Review: For Mystery Lovers!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2013
This was a brilliant read!Scarlett and her girls have moved across the sea to England.  Scarlett has lost her longtime partner and wanted a change for her and her girls.She bought a house sight unseen in person, and the reality slaps her upside the head when she arrives.  The lovely building that she was to start her new life in, was not habitable and a flop house for unsavoury characters.  I think in most countries it would be classed as condemned.  But being a strong, sure and determined woman, she opted to stay.  When her daughter sees a stranger lurking outside the kitchen window, all hell breaks loose when the window is attacked and killed by a rock!  Add a thunder and lightning storm outside no indoor plumbing and dodgy electricity, and urinating thieves, it is a roller coaster ride that any SANE person would love to get off.  Determined Scarlett however, calls the local boys in blue and tries to get some justice for her poor window and daughters suitcase.  What she gets however is dumb and dumber.  This leads her to put her forceful AMERICAN foot down to go higher up the totem pole and get a superintendent.  So we meet the H and he meets Scarlett!  There is instant attraction and connection with these two.This was a non stop ride of intrigue and excitement.  I loved how a murder mystery of 10 years ago that affected Archer when he was starting out in the police force, reared its ugly head again because the killer was never caught the first time.  There was also the friction between Archers mother and Scarlett.  The dynamics of living in a little community where everyone knows what underwear you wear.  The petty jealousies.  The gossip.  The innuendos.  This book had it all!The ending will surely shock you.  It did me!  I usually have the killer figured out beforehand, I didn't see this one coming!A great read and engaging story!