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Fiction Women Sleuths

Death on the Rocks

A Lucy Trimble Mystery

by (author) Eric Wright

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
May 2002
Category
Women Sleuths, Private Investigators, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550023817
    Publish Date
    May 2002
    List Price
    $19.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554885183
    Publish Date
    May 2002
    List Price
    $6.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780312312763
    Publish Date
    Jun 1999
    List Price
    $21.99

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Description

When private detective Lucy Trimble is retained by Greta Golden to find the identity of the ominous lurking stranger who Greta is certain is following her, it doesn’t appear to be too challenging a mystery. Lucy has no trouble learning who her client’s pursuer is: a British investigator has been engaged to probe into Greta’s life. But the question of what he is trying to discover about Greta, and why, begins to truly complicate the case. This revelation soon opens up further questions about Greta’s own identity and, more specifically, the identities of her mother and father.

Lucy’s investigation leads her to Cornwall, England, where there still live witnesses to Greta’s birth and her father’s death. Lucy slowly begins to put the fragments of the puzzle together, but it is only when Greta joins Lucy in England that she is able to find the missing piece, and begins to confront her own rapidly evolving and more complicated personal life.

About the author

Best known as a writer of award-winning detective fiction, including the Charlie Salter mysteries, Eric Wright has also written a comic novel (Moodies Tale) and Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, his 1999 memoir which was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. (The first chapter of that memoir first appeared in The New Yorker.) Eric helped to set up and was the first director of the publishing program at Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

Death on the Rocks has all the ingredients for a good mystery...a good read for an afternoon in a deck chair!

NOW Magazine

As in Wrights other novels, there is plenty of wry humour here, and an intriguing storyline supported by interesting secondary characters, lots of local colour, and many promising subplots.

Quill and Quire