Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime
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Publisher Description
This highly anticipated follow-up to The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp finds Agnes and her octogenarian friends face-to-face with a killer after winning a trip to a beautiful hotel. Will it be an early checkout for anyone in the gang?
The year is rapidly drawing to an end, Hettie the tortoise is hibernating and Agnes, Charlie, Marshall, and the other elderly residents of Sunset Hall are going stir-crazy. They’ve had enough of the broken boiler, drafty bedrooms, and Christmas jingles on the radio. And to top it off, another series of murders is rocking the hamlet of Duck End. It seems like every villager and his dog is trying to make up for all of the thwarted murders of the past thirty years.
Most unpleasant! The residents of Sunset Hall don’t want anything to do with the criminal activities. So when Edwina manages to sneak onto Marshall’s computer and promptly wins a stay in an exclusive coastal hotel in Cornwall, the Sunset Hall crew doesn’t waste any time in deciding to join her. After all, Edwina can’t be left unsupervised.
But they’ve barely unpacked their bags when Agnes sees something unsettling: two figures in hoods walk away from the hotel along the cliffs, but only one returns. Worried she’s witnessed a murder, Agnes tells the others. At first nobody really believes her—the crew has enough to do working their way through the incredible menu, exploring the hotel’s wellness landscape, navigating old and new love affairs and adopting a boa constrictor. But when the hotel ends up isolated from the outside world after a storm, it becomes clear that a murderer really is on the loose—and they’re trapped, just like the other guests!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Swann follows The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp with another playful cozy centered on the octogenarian residents of Sunset Hall, former policewoman Agnes Sharp's family home in the tiny English village of Duck End. When kooky Sunset Hall housemate and former Secret Service agent Edwina Singh wins a trip to the Cornwall coast, her housemates follow along, both because they're going stir-crazy in Duck End and because they want to ensure Edwina stays out of trouble. Shortly after the group arrive at their hotel, Agnes notices two strange figures near the cliffs at the edge of the property. She looks away for a moment, and when she turns back, one of them has disappeared from sight. Though she's worried someone may have been pushed to their death, Agnes follows her friends' advice and puts the episode out of her mind. Then a storm isolates the group in Cornwall, more bodies start piling up, and Agnes's cohort once again transform into intrepid gumshoes. The familiar setup produces entertaining results, with the highlight being Swann's lively, well-rounded cast of senior sleuths. For cozy readers, this series hits all the right notes.
