The delightful Miss Pink, Gwen Moffat’s amateur detective, is paying a visit to the remote village of Abersaint on the coast of West Wales...
She’s there to join the birthday celebrations of her old friend Roderick Bowen: although it’s his 87th birthday, he’s still full of energy and recently emerged victorious in a battle with the atomic energy Authority, halting their plan to build a fast breeder reactor on his land.
But Roderick has just had a nasty fall down the granary steps, and he believes that someone was trying to kill him. Then there’s the mysterious death in a fire of the flamboyant Sandra Maitland. Does Miss Pink have a murder to investigate?
Gwen Moffat’s main interests are wilderness areas and the genesis of murder, and all her books have featured one or the other. Moffat has writtenboth travel books and novels.
This is a good three and a half stars for me. I liked Miss Pink - her style, strength, self-reliance, common-sense, no-nonsense and understated thought-processes. I even enjoyed the convoluted plot structure. I did, however, find it difficult to keep all the characters clear in my mind. I nearly drew myself a diagram! Once again, a downside of eBooks is that it isn't easy to flip back and keep track of who's who.
Nonetheless, I liked it enough to keep turning pages - and to want to read more of the series.