The book....
SINCLAIR WIFE DEAD! HUSBAND CLEARED!
Police have ruled out suspicious circumstances in the
investigation into the death of Elizabeth Sinclair, wife of charismatic
entrepreneur Harry Sinclair, found drowned in the lake of the family’s holiday
park.
It’s been two years since the Sinclair case closed but when
reporter Steph Durham receives a tipoff that could give her the scoop of the
year, she’s drawn deeper and deeper into the secretive Sinclair family.
Elizabeth’s death
wasn’t a tragic accident. And the truth will come at a deadly price…
The review...
I've read and enjoyed previous books by Sue Fortin (The Birthday Girl stands out as one I particularly relished), so I jumped at the chance to read and review her latest.
In The Dead Wife (the title does feel a bit blunt), main protagonist Steph writes for a travel company but hankers after a more exciting and challenging kind of journalism. Sent by her employer to cover the reopening of a Lake District resort, she certainly doesn't expect to be approached beforehand by the mother of a woman who tragically drowned there two years earlier. Sonia Lomas is convinced her daughter Elizabeth, the wife of one of the brothers who run the resort, was murdered..... but nobody believes her, the police included. And she wants Steph to investigate.
At the resort we're swiftly introduced to Harry, Elizabeth's grieving widower; eldest brother Dominic, quickly established as the sort of person who kicks dogs; and Owen, the alcoholic youngest brother. Then there's Pru, the matriarch.
The story is told largely from Steph's perspective, but also follows the brothers and incorporates flashbacks to events leading up to Elizabeth's death two years earlier. Elizabeth, it seems, had something of a talent for trouble...
Although I did have a good idea who the "baddie" was prior to the reveal, it was a very enjoyable read, with a likeable heroine in Steph and an evocative setting in the Lakes... and a sense of genuine jeopardy at times.
Many thanks to the author and Rachel's Random Resources for the opportunity to participate in the blog tour!
The author...
Sue
Fortin is an award-winning USA Today and an Amazon best-selling author, an
international bestseller and has reached #1 in the Amazon UK Kindle chart. Sue
writes mystery, suspense and romance, sometimes combining all three.
Sue was born in Hertfordshire but had a nomadic childhood, moving often with her family, before eventually settling in West Sussex where she now lives with her husband, children and grandchildren.
Sue was born in Hertfordshire but had a nomadic childhood, moving often with her family, before eventually settling in West Sussex where she now lives with her husband, children and grandchildren.
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