Jill Staynes Books
Jill Staynes crafts narratives under her own name and as Elizabeth Eyre and Susannah Stacey. Collaborating with Margaret Storey, she has produced both the acclaimed Superintendent Bone modern detective series and a captivating series of Italian Renaissance whodunnits. The two authors first bonded over imaginative storytelling during their school days, creating peculiar characters and exchanging serialized tales. Their youthful literary collaboration, a fifteen-year-old's venture titled 'Bungho, or why we went to Aleppo,' remained unpublished but foreshadowed their successful partnership.
Body of Opinion
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
SOME GUESTS DON'T KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE... The party at the Manor had been a smash, and rock star Ken Cryer was feeling, well pleased... until he found golden Alix Hamilton in his bed. Despite her seductive pose, Alix didn't fancy Ken, or anyone else. She was dead—shot twice, with two different guns, in a room Cryer had specifically locked against intruders. For Superintendent Robert Bone, these were only the first complications in a case that would include champagne corks that masked the sound of gunfire, a missing, suspect, a stolen religious artifact, an orphaned cat, and the unexpected assistance of one very pretty biology teacher. But it would take a second body to lead Bone, at last, to the unrepentant murderer...
Superintendent Bone und seine frisch angetraute Frau Grizel rechnen mit ein paar ruhigen Ferientagen, als sie sich auf ihre Rundreise zu einigen alten englischen Herrensitzen begeben. Doch spätestens auf Roke Castle nimmt ihr Urlaub eine unerwartete Wendung: ein Mitglied der Reisegesellschaft und der exzentrische Lord Roke kommen auf bizarre Art ums Leben. Bone merkt schnell, daß die Kollegen von der örtlichen Polizei überfordert sind, und nimmt die Sache selbst in die Hand. Keine Minute zu früh!
A sharp-witted new sleuth unravels the deadly riddles of Renaissance Italy. With his bald head and black cape, Sigismondo is an imposing figure. A marriage is arranged to end a feud between two houses, but Sigismondo must investigate when the bride disappears and her handmaid is murdered. Previous publisher: St. Martin's.
Roman, übersetzt von Caroline Einhäupl und Barbara Schmitz-Burckhardt, umfasst 217 Seiten.
