Brighton Belle
by:
Sara Sheridan (author)
1951. Brighton. With the war over and the Nazis brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (Secret Service, retired) thinks her skills are no longer required. After her lover's death she retires to the seaside to put the past behind her and takes a job at a debt collection agency run by the...
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1951. Brighton. With the war over and the Nazis brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (Secret Service, retired) thinks her skills are no longer required. After her lover's death she retires to the seaside to put the past behind her and takes a job at a debt collection agency run by the charismatic Big Ben McGuigan. But when the case of Romana Laszlo - a pregnant Hungarian refugee - comes in, Mirabelle soon discovers that her specialist knowledge is vital. With enthusiastic assistance from insurance clerk Vesta Churchill, they follow a mysterious trail of gold sovereigns and corpses that only they can unravel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846972287 (1846972280)
Publish date: July 5th 2012
Publisher: Polygon
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Mirabelle Bevan Mystery (#1)
I've had the first two books of the Mirabelle Bevan mystery series on my NOOK for years and just never got around to them, even in last year's Halloween bingo. I think the covers showed a depiction of the story and characters that looked too posh for something dark and creepy. Boy was I wrong. And...
#BRIGHTONBELLE 5 STARS AVAILABLE 3/29/16 @sarasheridan @kensingtonbooks I am SO glad I requested this one and SO glad there was nothing or no one to bother me while reading it. There was a lot going on in this book, by that I mean characters and plots. Yet, it was so GOOD!! The list of suspects w...
loved this and hope it's the start of a series. Jolly good story..
loved this and hope it's the start of a series. Jolly good story..