Murder in time
By: Veronica Heley
Edition: First world edition.
Series: The Ellie Quicke mysteries
Publisher: Severn House Trade Paperback; Severn House Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780727883988; 9781847515186
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Widows; Absentee fathers; Ellie Quicke (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's brilliant but difficult young son. Mikey had been conceived at a party during which his mother Vera, a schoolgirl, had been drugged and raped. Abdi hadn't wanted anything further to do with her - then. Twelve years later he is a high-flying consultant whose wife cannot have children, and he aims to pay off Vera and adopt Mikey: a suggestion that does not go down well. Ellie discovers that Vera still thinks fondly of her then boyfriend, even though he had also rejected her after that fatal night. But was that because he had fallen out of love with her, or because his father had been murdered that same weekend? Could the two events have been connected? And what part had Vera's closest friends and her family played in the tragedy? Uncovering betrayals between friends and discovering the greed and jealousies behind past events only makes it more difficult for Vera and Mikey to decide on their future.