The new novel featuring the delightful Ellie Quicke Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her husband's death and her newly-single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else making demands on her: Diana, her selfish daughter, who expects Ellie to drop everything to babysit; the builders working on her new conservatory; elderly and irritable Aunt Drusilla; even dear Rose who needs Ellie's advice about her daughter's wedding. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives next door, has gone missing...Ellie is very fond of Tod, and his disappearance shocks her to the core. Before she knows it, she's caught up in a police investigation which casts a sinister shadow over her respectable, close-knit community...
- ISBN10 072785982X
- ISBN13 9780727859822
- Publish Date 30 May 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English