"Julia Lanchester must find her missing father and life becomes very complicated."
Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted May 25, 2015
Mystery Cozy
Julia Lanchester, has left her father's show in protest
over his quick remarriage after her mother's death. She
is now working for the Fotheringill estate as a tourist
information manager.
Shortly after q quick visit from her father, her new
stepmother calls her in a panic. Julia's father has
disappeared. He left his phone with a text started to
Julia...the rhyme of the magpie. With that call, Julia
will be drawn into a murder investigation.
Julia's life spirals out of control as she works with the
man who has been hired to replace her on the show. Her
car is stolen and someone locks her into her makeshift
garage. Her relationship with Michael is torn between
attraction and the urge to hit him for taking her place.
While searching for her father, Julia and Michael
discover the body of a dead man. Kenneth Kersey was the
communications director for a power company which
intended to build a wind farm.
Rupert Lanchester was opposed to the wind farm and there
had been some strife between him and the power company.
Michael and Julia now have two reasons to search for her
father.
Julia starts off as a somewhat unlikable character. Her
dismay over her father's second marriage has caused her
to lock her heart away. She has isolated herself from
others. The investigation will force her to face her
problems and make her realize that she can't do this
alone. Her growing attraction to Michael and her concern
over her father gradually changes her attitude.
As she and Michael grew closer, you could see her
attitude change. She became a much more sympathetic
character.
Ms. Wingate has written a tense, complicated mystery
which gradually draws the reader in. Her characters are
three dimensional with all the flaws and strengths
exposed.
SUMMARY
With her personal life in disarray, Julia Lanchester feels
she has no option but to quit her job on her father’s hit
BBC Two nature show, A Bird in the Hand. Accepting a
tourist management position in Smeaton-under-Lyme, a
quaint village in the English countryside, Julia throws
herself into her new life, delighting sightseers (and a
local member of the gentry) with tales of ancient Romans
and pillaging Vikings.
But the past is front and center when her father, Rupert,
tracks her down in a moment of desperation. Julia refuses
to hear him out; his quick remarriage after her mother’s
death was one of the reasons Julia flew the coop. But
later she gets a distressed call from her new stepmum:
Rupert has gone missing. Julia decides to investigate—she
owes him that much, at least—and her father’s new
assistant, the infuriatingly dapper Michael Sedgwick,
offers to help. Little does the unlikely pair realize that
awaiting them is a tightly woven nest of lies and murder.
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