The Water Lily Cross
by Anthony Eglin
Retired professor
and amateur sleuth, Lawrence Kingston is back for a third adventure,
following on from The Blue Rose and The Lost Garden
(the latter reviewed on this site). This time his old friend
Stewart Halliday has vanished from his Hampshire home, and his distraught
wife urges Lawrence to find out what has happened to him. He soon
discovers that Stewart was working on a project to grow water lilies,
but these plants have a very special purpose of the sort that people
will stop at nothing to possess.
Horticulture,
culinary appreciation and cryptic crosswords add up to an engaging
cozy, add in some exciting adventures involving top secret research
and kidnapping and you have a jewel of a book. This is an original
series marrying classic era adventure with modern science and world
issues in an engaging style. Bon viveur Lawrence lives
life to the full and Eglin paints a picture of an upper middle class
world where money is no object and problems can be dealt with in
a charmingly direct manner. As cozy as an easy chair and a glass
of single malt, this is a series to savor.
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The Book |
Thomas Dunne Books ( St Martin's Press) |
May 2007 |
Hardback |
10:
0312365462
13: 9780312365462
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Contemporary Crime - Hampshire, UK |
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The
Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed
2007 |
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