Worthless Remains
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Publisher Description
The English PI with "a biting wit" returns to dig up the dirty secrets of a celebrity archaeologist in this delightful mystery series (Kirkus Reviews).
Being a bodyguard isn't Chris Honeysett's thing. He's more of a destitute artist type. But he's also an out-of-work private investigator working from a tiny cottage in Bath. So when he's offered a gig babysitting Guy Middleton, he figures a check is a check. Famous for his archaeology-based reality show, Middleton has been receiving death threats. And his latest shoot—uncovering the treasures of a local historic mansion—might give his stalker fans easier access than normal. Could someone really want him dead? As Honeysett gets to the know the haughty, disagreeable star, he begins to wonder who wouldn't.
But the menace only escalates when more than Roman remains are unearthed on the mansion grounds. Now it's Honeysett's job to connect the crimes of the past with those promised for the near future.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Helton's diverting fifth Chris Honeysett mystery (after 2012's An Inch of Time, 2012) finds Honeysett, a painter and PI, ensconced at Mill House, a rural retreat outside the city of Bath, with two overweight sheep and his girlfriend, Annis Jordan. For Honeysett, Jordan only counts as "half a girl," since she's also dating his partner in Aqua Investigations, ex-safecracker Tim Bigwood, not that anyone involved minds. Simon Paris, Honeysett's gallerist in Bath and London, does mind that his client has switched his painting style from abstract to realistic. Honeysett is worried about all the bills the postman keeps delivering which is why he ends up accepting a job looking after haughty, self-involved Guy Middleton, the presenter of an archeology TV program, who has been receiving a spate of chilling death threats. Some readers may feel Helton strains too hard at times for humorous effect, but Anglophiles should be satisfied with his close attention to the subtleties of British culture and cookery in particular.
