Last to Leave
A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
Carlton Dellar, the esteemed poet, couldn't have hoped for a more eventful eightieth birthday. His extended family has gathered under the reproachful eye of his wife to celebrate what is silently suspected to be his last year. Hours later, the guests gather on the lawns in confusion as Larchmoor Place burns to the ground. Worse, Carlton's niece is unaccounted for and her twin brother is brutally assaulted and now lies unconscious in the hospital.
Superintendent Mike Yeadings of the Thames Valley CID strongly suspects arson, a feeling intensified when he learns that the guest list included the aging poet's brother Matthew, one of the country's most powerful and successful senior prosecutors. But as the family is questioned, it becomes clear to Yeadings and his team that perhaps Matthew Dellar is not the only member to be at risk from secret enmity and undercurrents of jealousy and frustration. And when a search of the wreckage uncovers a charred corpse, the enquiry steps up another level as they attempt to find a murderer.
The tenth installment in this enthralling series, Last to Leave is an accomplished investigative drama from a British author of tried and true talent.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of British author Curzon's assured 11th Mike Yeadings police procedural (after 2004's A Meeting of Minds), antagonistic members of the Dellar family have put aside past grievances to celebrate patriarch Carlton Dellar's 80th birthday when a fire breaks out late at night and destroys Carlton's Thames Valley house, critically injuring his nephew. While the fire inspectors sort through the ashes and rubble to determine the conflagration's cause, Det. Supt. Mike Yeadings and Sgt. Rosemary Zyczynski inquire into the whereabouts of Carlton's missing twin sister, who was the house's only unaccounted-for resident. Sifting through the minds and hearts of the Dellars, the detective duo unearth long hidden secrets that lead to a surprising conclusion to this expertly plotted mystery of greed and revenge.
