Cradle to Grave
Detective: Marjorie Fleming
Setting Galloway
Time Current
Genre Police Procedural
This is the seventh of the Templeton Marjorie Fleming series with a complex, intriguing and well structured plot.
Events centre on a wealthy man's intention to allow the peninsula/headland where he lives to be the venue for an open air pop concert. In torrential weather the bridge to the peninsula collapses, the phone line goes down (and it's a dead spot for mobiles) and a coastal landslip destroys a ow of cotages on the beach. Fleming and her Sergeant, McNee, are trapped on the headland as the bridge collapses under their car.
Amongst the people on the headland there is a young woman from the cottages who has had the good fortune to avoid the landslip. There is something strange about her and something she is apprehensive about. there's the wealthy man of course and his drug dependent daughter and her husband, still in anger mode about the death of their baby daughter, and their spoiltt and obnoxious son. One of his guests is a well known pop star who embarrassingly features in Fleming's past.
Eventually the bodies start piling up and there's some serious criminal activity surrounding the wealthy man and word s that a hit man has been despatched but to get rid of who?
To add to the complications, Fleming and McNee, normally close colleagues are estranged. McNee develops a bad working relationship with a new fenmale detective who is keeping her personal life quiet. At the same ime McNee is arring his own personal problem.
It all unravels rather nicely.
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