1 June 2000.
ISBN: 978-0-75283416-0 (PB)
At the Cambridge May ball on a warm balmy evening in June, amidst champagne, smoked salmon, music and laughter, young pretty Katie Arkwright disappears.
In this the fourth book in the series private investigator, Laura Principal of Aardvark Investigations had been engaged to repel gatecrashers and maintain security at the ball. Following the disappearance of Katie, Laura is retained by Stephen Fox, senior tutor at the college to find the missing girl.
Whilst pursuing her
investigations into Katie’s disappearance, a murder and anunexpected death occur.
Both shocking. But are they related to the missing girl? Could the solution be
locked in the past?
The writing in this book is
beautiful. Michelle’s descriptive powers brought the scenes to life. I was
there. At all times during the story the weather is hot. I felt this heat and the
beauty of Cambridge. The contrasts of the life she portrays are vivid. Some of the
settings invoking a time gone by, and when Laura goes punting with her friend
Helen down the river to Grantchester for a picnic, it brought to mind ‘Stands the
church clock at ten to three and is there honey still for tea’.
The story is full of beauty, violence, sadness, pain and emotional conflict. It is also about choices, and the guilt that comes from fast actions that we think will solve an immediate problem, and then too late we find that we cannot live with them, and the resulting pain.
A first-class mystery. Highly
recommended.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Sirett
Michelle
Spring was
raised on Vancouver Island. She worked for many years as an academic in
Cambridge where she lived with her husband and their two children. She has
written several academic books and five Laura Principal thrillers, and a standalone thriller The Night Lawyer.
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