Penny Post

Penny Wanawake #3

by Susan Moody

Distinctly impure amusement... relax and enjoy it. Daily TelegraphLower Ingleford seems a typical rural hamlet in the sunlit uplands of northern England, complete with Village Institute, village green, and lord of the manor. But something is seriously milking equipment explodes; brakes are tampered with; bullets fly - someone is trying to kill the squire. Or so it seems. And the motives are tangled in a morass of shady property deals, art forgeries, and various dubious business practices.When Kendal Santain, local landowner and apparent target, calls on Penny Wanawake for help, he gets it. And rather more than he d bargained for. Six feet, 126 lbs, Bovril-black, rich, beautiful and totally uninhibited - when Penny seeks a Solution, there is nowhere for a Solution, however timid and retiring, to hide.PENNY POSTThird in the notable series starring the inimitable Penny WanawakeDon t missPENNY BLACK Debuts do not come more exotic and exuberant The Times

Genres: Mystery, Crime

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

She grew up in Oxford then moved to Tennessee for 10 years. She published two historical novels and the novelisation of the Nescafe Gold Blend advertisements under the pen name Susannah James. More recently she has also used the nom de plume, Susan Madison. She is a former Chairman of the Crime Writer's Association, served as World President of the International Association of Crime Writers, and was elected to the prestigious Detection Club. Susan Moody has given numerous courses on writing crime fiction and continues to teach creative writing in England, France, Australia, the USA and Denmark

Reviews

[Melody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Penny’s friend thinks someone might be trying to kill him. But he is the nicest person Penny knows and she knows of no one who thinks anything else. She agrees to go and see what’s what. She has known him for years and he is married to her best friend from college. When Penny arrives and has a look around, she can’t find any motive really for these attempts. It when he goes off to feed his pregnant wife’s pet goose and is shot and killed along with the goose Penny realises her friend the wife is the like target. But why? Is the sister and brother in law who are low of funds, the three villagers running a development enterprise in Majorca? Or the developer who wants to put in a caravan estate? Penny gets to the bottom of it.

[Roberta · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the only Penny Wanawake book I've read. Glad I picked it up cheap. At a library sale. Won't be looking for more.

"On the outside, the Cassidy house was elegant. Expensive, too. There was enough shrubbery to conceal a dozen flashers. There was a lawn you could have waxed. The flower beds contained more hardy perennials than a comic routine."

"Penny watched him pull the brain cells off simple tasks like eyelid-raising and hair-growing. Put them on to thinking. Send them scurrying round the information like ants round a fragment of fallen cake."