A Lethal Lesson
A Lane Winslow Mystery
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4.3 • 13 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Shortlisted for the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
An Indigo Top 10 Best Mystery of 2021
A Globe and Mail bestseller
#1 Bestselling New Release in Canada
Lane Winslow trades crime solving for substitute teaching in the eighth installment of this mystery series that Kirkus Reviews calls “riveting”.
Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in December. But when she finds the teachers' cottage ransacked with Rose unconscious and bleeding, and Wendy missing, Lane delivers Rose to the hospital in Nelson and turns the case over to her exasperated husband, Inspector Darling, and his capable colleagues, Sergeant Ames and Constable Terrell.
Never one to leave a post unmanned, Lane enlists as substitute teacher for the final two weeks before the Christmas holidays, during which time she discovers a threatening note in the teachers' desk and a revolver in the supply cupboard. But these clues only convolute the case further. Who has been tormenting these women, and where has Wendy gone?
Meanwhile, Darling finds the body of a hit-and-run victim in a snowbank miles outside of Nelson, the residents of King's Cove are preoccupied by the possibility of a new neighbour, and Sergeant Ames is as confused as ever by the inimitable Tina Van Eyck.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
With its snowy mood and picturesque 1940s setting, this mystery makes a missing-person case feel downright cozy. Lane Winslow and her beloved Inspector Darling are happily settling into married life in rural British Columbia. But the honeymoon’s definitely over one frigid December morning, when neither of the village’s two teachers shows up at the local one-room schoolhouse—and they weren’t snowed in. When Lane dutifully offers to fill in as teacher, her extraordinary powers of observation soon have her putting this crime’s clues together herself. As always in this charming series, author Iona Whishaw crafts a perplexing, Agatha Christie–like mystery that almost seems beside the point because we’re so fascinated by her characters. A Lethal Lesson is an enjoyable read—any fan of historical whodunits will love to curl up with it.
