Time of Hope

Trevellyan & Hope #2

by Susan B. Kelly

Nick Trevellyan and Alison Hope find that the sleepy English village of Little Hopford is a hotbed of illicit activity--past and present.

When sexually generous 19-year-old Frisco Carstairs is fatally strangled, local police inspector Nick knows who would have liked to have wrung the victim's neck: Dot Lawson, who was vehemently opposed to her son Ben's plan to marry Frisco. Yet inquiries into the private lives of the Lawsons (including Dot's husband, Sam, a petty thief) only cloud the issue.

Then Molly Armitage, an elderly woman who Nick believes has deliberately obstructed his inquiries, is attacked and nearly strangled to death. Nick is equally stalled off the job as the fiercely independent Alison, who owns a software business, dismisses his marriage proposals while continuing to host an obnoxious houseguest, Londoner Ralph Squires, who is openly contemptuous of "whatsizname . . . the country bobby."

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Susan B. Kelley was born in the Chilterns and grew up in Oxford. After reading French and English at London University, she worked as a freelance computer programmer for many years. She is now a full-time writer and lives in West London with her solicitor husband and cat.

She is the creator of:
1. 'Alison Hope and Nick Trevellyan', a businesswoman and a Detective Inspector.
2. 'Gregory Summers', Superintendent of the Newbury police force.

Source: http://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels...

Reviews

[Molly Koeneman · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got this book at a second-hand shop with the full intention of reading it and ditching it during a trip abroad. I was hoping for something pithy, engaging, and racy that would be a page-turner but was disappointed. For 90p, I got what I paid for.

[Alexys deVries · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book was pretty boring until the last third. There wasn’t much of a big twist at the end. There were too many characters that didn’t get fully established so I kept forgetting who was who, even in the last couple chapters.

[Cws]

JM-Kel