Treacherous strand /
by Carter, Andrea.
Material type: BookSeries: Carter, Andrea. Inishowen mystery: 2.Publisher: Leicester : Thorpe, 2017Edition: Large print edition.Description: 360 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781444831375; 1444831372.Subject(s): Women lawyers -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Inishowen Peninsula (Ireland) -- Fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Large type booksSummary: A woman's body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen peninsula. Partially clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been living in the area. Solicitor Benedicta 'Ben' O'Keeffe is consumed by guilt; Marguerite was her client. Disturbed by what appears to be chilling local indifference to the death, Ben uncovers the woman's strange past as a member of a French doomsday cult, which she escaped twenty years previously, leaving her baby daughter behind. As Ben pieces together the last few weeks of Marguerite's life in Inishowen, what she discovers causes her to question the fragile nature of her own position in the area, and she finds herself crossing boundaries both personal and professional to unearth local secrets long buried.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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A woman's body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen peninsula. Partially clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been living in the area. Solicitor Benedicta 'Ben' O'Keeffe is consumed by guilt; Marguerite was her client. Disturbed by what appears to be chilling local indifference to the death, Ben uncovers the woman's strange past as a member of a French doomsday cult, which she escaped twenty years previously, leaving her baby daughter behind. As Ben pieces together the last few weeks of Marguerite's life in Inishowen, what she discovers causes her to question the fragile nature of her own position in the area, and she finds herself crossing boundaries both personal and professional to unearth local secrets long buried.
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