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Also by Cassandra Chan:

Village Affairs, October 2006
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The Young Widow, October 2006
Paperback (reprint)

VILLAGE AFFAIRS
By: Cassandra Chan

Minotaur Books
October 2006
Featuring: Sergeant Jack Gibbons; Phillip Bethancourt
368 pages
ISBN: 0312337507
Hardcover
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Mystery

Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons and friend Phillip Bethancourt team up to solve the murder of a wealthy bachelor in this smart follow-up to Chan's sparkling debut, The Young Widow.

Ambitious Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons calls on his friend, the wealthy man-about-town Phillip Bethan¬court, for help with his latest case, the death of a middle-aged widower in a small town in the English Cotswolds.What first appears to be an accident soon grows more interesting when tracing Charlie Bingham's movements on the evening of his death proves more difficult than expected. It seems Charlie was going to visit his girlfriend—but no one knows who she is. And when it turns out that Charlie was a very wealthy business¬man, other suspects begin to pop up: his estranged daughter, who was in London on the evening in question, and an un¬happy business partner who has no alibi.

Cassandra Chan shows her mastery of the traditional Eng¬lish mystery in this second novel to feature the investigative duo of Jack Gibbons and Phillip Bethancourt, a modern-day Peter Wimsey.