Blood On The Wood
Blood On The Wood
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Summary
Suffragette and amateur detective Nell Bray is sent to collect a valuable painting bequeathed to the movement, but it turns out to be a fake. With the real one identified, Nell is persuaded to steal what is rightfully hers, but upon arriving at the address given to her, she also discovers a body.
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Blood On The Wood by Gillian Linscott
The suffragette movement has been left the bequest of a valuable painting and, with much grumbling, Nell Bray agrees to collect it. The widower of their benefactress, Oliver Venn, lives with his nephews in a beautiful house in the Cotswolds filled with priceless antiques and objets d'art. But when Nell takes the canvas to Christie's she is told it is a copy, so with outrage and impatience she has to return to the Venn household. One of the nephews, who has just bizarrely jilted his fiancee in favour of a peasant fiddler to save her from poverty, suggests she steal the genuine painting. Somewhat against her better judgement, Nell agrees to the plan, finding that Daniel Venn has fulfilled his part of the bargain by leaving the house open. What he didn't warn her about was that the body of his new bride-to-be would be concealed in his uncle's study. Nell's distrust of the police and her insatiable curiosity forces her to undertake her own investigation into the killing. And she does succeed where the police have failed, but not before the finger of suspicion is laid on more than one wrong person, and someone else falls victim to the real killer.
'Linscott writes like a rewarding angel' SUNDAY TIMES 'Just the right mix of period detail, character psychology and suspense' EXPRESS
Gillian Linscott has been a journalist with the GUARDIAN and Parliamentary Correspondent with the BBC. Two Nell Bray novels have been dramatised on BBC Radio 4 and ABSENT FRIENDS was the winner of the CWA/Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781860499975 |
| ISBN 10 | 186049997X |
| Title | Blood On The Wood |
| Author | Gillian Linscott |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2003-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |