Fear on Friday (Lois Meade Series #5) by Ann Purser

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  • Pub. Date: September 2006
  • 272pp
  • Sales Rank: 62,104

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    • Pub. Date: September 2006
    • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
    • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 272pp
    • Sales Rank: 62,104

    Synopsis

    The latest Lois Meade mystery - When Lois Meade is asked to clean for Tresham's mayor, this only arouses her curiosity especially when the mayor's limousine is seen to collect a package from the dubious shop opposite her office. Gradually Lois uncovers a web of deceit, sex for sale and murder amid the tranquillity of rural life, and it is time for her old admirer Chief Inspector Hunter Cowgill to become involved. True to form, Lois ignores his warnings . . .

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    The latest Lois Meade mystery - When Lois Meade is asked to clean for Tresham's mayor, this only arouses her curiosity especially when the mayor's limousine is seen to collect a package from the dubious shop opposite her office. Gradually Lois uncovers a web of deceit, sex for sale and murder amid the tranquillity of rural life, and it is time for her old admirer Chief Inspector Hunter Cowgill to become involved. True to form, Lois ignores his warnings . . .

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    When the unsavory mayor of Tresham is found dead in his fish pond, Chief Inspector Hunter Cowgill calls on the owner of New Brooms for help digging up the dirt. Lois Meade (Theft on Thursday, 2005, etc.) has just opened a new Tresham office for her cleaning service. Across the street is Rain or Shine, owned by her Long Farnden neighbors Rupert and Daisy Forsyth and run by their son Derek. Although the shop window features rainwear, its main attractions to furtive customers are pornography and sex toys. New Brooms' clientele includes Doreen Jenkinson and her husband Howard, Tresham's mayor, who's reserved a room in his own house for his dalliances with other ladies, cleaning it himself and perhaps furnishing it with marital aids his chauffeur has purchased at Rain or Shine. Cowgill is sure that Lois can learn a lot about the mysterious death by listening to the gossip picked up by her cleaners and snooping in the houses of the mayor's circle of friends. Sure enough, her faithful workers, her village shop-owning daughter and even her gran come up with tidbits that help solve the case. Interesting characters don't quite justify the effort to disentangle the dense web of humdrum information en route to the ho-hum ending.

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    Ann Purser lives in England.

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