Private eye Laura Flynn investigates the death of her client, an Irish fashion designer, the fate of her long-gone father, and Mrs. Lotti's missing cat
Lesley Grant-Adamson (nee Lesley Heycock) was born in Islington, north London in 1942, and spent most of her childhood in Trealaw in the Rhondda.
She now lives in Debenham, Suffolk, but during the 1980s and 1990s lived in Islington, the scene of several of her novels. Since 1968 she has been married to Andrew Grant-Adamson, a communications consultant and lecturer in journalism at City University and Westminster University. Together they wrote A Season in Spain (Pavilion), a portrait of the Alpujarra region of Andalusia where they lived from 1991-3.
She was educated at Dame Alice Owen School and then worked as a journalist in London and the provinces until the early Seventies when she joined the London staff of The Guardian. In 1981 she left The Guardian to write fiction.
She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Royal Society of Literature, the Welsh Academy, East Anglia Writers and the Crime Writers’ Association.
The premise was awesome! The execution's, not as awesome. Now, a couple months after I read it, I don't know that I can give a better answer to why I didn't love it then "It just wasn't my thing", which I guess is good for you, because that would lean to the point that, well, it might not be the story/writing as much as it just wasn't a style that I love which is totally a personal preference, not slam on the book. I know. I sound like I'm rambling. So, to save your eyes and your precious time, I'm just going to leave it at this and suggest that you read the full review for a more coherent, less rumbly account of my thoughts regarding this book.