The cuckoo's child
By: Marjorie Eccles
Edition: 1st world ed.
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sutton, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780727880321; 9781847513458
Subjects: English Detective and mystery stories; English Historical fiction; Industrialists; Fiction; Woollen and worsted manufacture; Family secrets; Police; Social conditions
Description: A gripping historical mystery, set in the north of England - Yorkshire, 1909. When Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthrope, home to a prosperous wool mill and its respected owner, Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But she arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Theo, Ainsley's son, in a disastrous fire twenty years ago; and the Beaumonts have secrets; secrets that DI Charlie Womersely, investigating a body found floating in the mill dam, must uncover if he is to find the truth ...
Table of contents: title: A gripping historical mystery, set in the north of England; title: Yorkshire, 1909. When Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthrope, home to a prosperous wool mill and its respected owner, Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But she arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Theo, Ainsley's son, in a disastrous fire twenty years ago; and the Beaumonts have secrets; secrets that DI Charlie Womersely, investigating a body found floating in the mill dam, must uncover if he is to find the truth ...