By Elizabeth George
The surprising dying of man Brouard after his morning swim shocks the citizens of Guernsey. A beneficiant customer and benefactor of the island considering his arrival there a decade in the past, his death places a question mark over many loved tasks. whilst a tender American lady is charged with the homicide, her brother seeks aid from the one touch he has within the united kingdom - Deborah St James. Deborah is horrified to discover that her outdated buddy has been arrested and persuades her husband Simon to accompany her to Guernsey to stay clear of this miscarriage of justice. There they discover a tangled net of deceit and betrayal, with its origins in wartime profession. In fixing the crime, they need to depend on their long-standing friendship with Inspector Lynley; they need to additionally study painful classes approximately loyalty and belief, and the loving tyranny of family members ties.
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At nine, this was. Chine gave me your address and number. I didn’t think I’d need them, but then the plane was delayed because of the weather. And when there was finally a break in the storm, it was too damn late to go to the embassy. ” Simon took Cherokee’s glass and replaced his spilled brandy with more. ” Cherokee took the brandy, nodding his thanks. His hands were steadier. He gulped at the drink but began to cough. “You need to get out of those clothes,” Deborah said. “I expect a bath’ll do the trick.
But on Guernsey, their plans changed unexpectedly. ” Simon asked. Five thousand dollars, Cherokee told them. At their expressions of incredulity, he hastened to say that yeah, it was outrageous as all get-out and the amount of the payment was the number-one reason China had insisted they open the package because who the heck would give someone two free tickets to Europe and five thousand dollars just to carry something over from LA? But it turned out that doing outrageous stuff with money was what this whole deal was about in the first place.
He gulped at the drink but began to cough. “You need to get out of those clothes,” Deborah said. “I expect a bath’ll do the trick. I’m going to run one for you and while you’re soaking, we’ll throw your things in the dryer. ” “Hey, no. I can’t. It’s . . ” “Don’t worry about the time. Simon, will you take him to the spare room and help him with his clothes? And no arguments, Cherokee. ” Deborah led the way upstairs. While her husband went in search of something dry for the man to wear when he was finished bathing, she turned the taps on in the tub.
