Notting Hill Mysteries
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The fourth in Anabel Donald's witty and fast-paced series takes Alex Tanner, TV researcher and occasional PI, backwards and forwards across the Atlantic in search of a missing young man.
Alex Tanner jumps at the chance of a short assignment in Cicago. The only problem is that Barty, TV producer and occasional boyfriend, wants to come too.In the Windy City matters become even more complicated when a beautiful young model begs Alex to find her missing lover. Her boyfriend, she says, had been having a personal crisis and, by way of explanation, had kept saying over and over again that the answer lay `in the loop'...
The trail leads Alex from Chicago back to England, where the problems - both professional and romantic - really begin...
'A powerful sense of place ... in this fast absorbing read.' Val McDermid
'An intriguing mixture of wry humour, low-life sleaze and cult religion, interspersed with the saga of the heroine's hopeless love life. Perfect for the beach.' Cosmopolitan
'I'm twenty-eight. I'm a freelance TV researcher. And last November I investigated my first murder . . .'
Alex Tanner is always on the lookout for work - mortgages on flats in Notting Hill don't come cheap after all and she only has herself to rely on. So when TV producer Barty O'Neill mentions a particularly juicy assignment for his latest documentary she jumps at the chance.
Barty sends Alex to investigate the shooting of Lord Sherman, who was a member of London’s high society in the 50s, and whose case remains unresolved.
Alex hopes that a governess of the family, Miss Sarah Potter, will help untangle the truth, or will she lead Alex down another hidden path of the family’s privileged history?
At the same time, Alex's love life is challenged by the return of her friend Barty's former wife. Down-to-earth, slyly funny and driven, Alex is a complex, intelligent heroine operating in a fast, absorbing narrative.
'I MUST SMASH THE GLASS CEILING. STOP ME IF YOU CAN . . . PLEASE STOP ME.'
But what sends the biggest chill down Alex's spine is the cross against one of the names on the list. For this woman is now dead . . .