Guilt Trip
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Publisher Description
In this charming British mystery, antiques dealer Lina Townend must contend with a prankster that takes things dangerously too far.
Things in Lina Townend's life could be better. Her love life is in a holding pattern and her business is faltering now that a new antiques center with very reduced prices—and less attention to detail—has opened up nearby.
Lina doesn't quite know what to do about her own problems, but when a local theater director asks her business partner Griff to star in her latest production, she encourages him to do it. At least one of them will get their minds off their troubles.
But things quickly turn sour at the theater when a series of pranks played on the "Curtain Call" cast turn nasty. Now, Lina is determined to figure out what's really going on—before someone ends up breaking way more than a leg . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Cutler's well-done fourth Lina Townend mystery (after 2011's Guilty Pleasures), Lina and Griff Tripp, her elderly mentor, try to fathom an unpleasant stranger they meet at a Kent antiques fair, who's much too aggressive in demanding Lina use her considerable talents to restore his damaged china. Meanwhile, Griff's scheduled medical procedures have Lina fearful, and his participation in an amateur theater production has her crazy the extra driving and the diva director, Emilia Cosworth, are just two of the annoying features. More serious trouble arises after an escalating series of humorless pranks dog the actors, and Lina encounters a handsome man known only as Paul, who tries to warn her but about what, exactly? Lina's disreputable father, Lord Elham, and his comrade-in-fraud, Titus Oates, make cameo appearances as the threats to Lina ramp up. Lots of action and clever writing make this an exceptional addition to this traditional series.
