Tangled Web UK Review October 2000
Jacob's Ladder by
Lizbie Brown
hbk out August 00
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
at £16.99
Elizabeth Blair, sixty-something, American, widow, quilt shop owner and part-time private eye, is miserable with post-flu depression.
In a Wiltshire village a baby has been abandoned and famous explorer Con Bartram fatally stabbed. Is there any connection between the two events? Elizabeth and Max, her young partner in the detective agency, are hired to prove that Kit Bartram did not kill his father. Con Bartram had plenty of enemies not least among his close family, and Elizabeth is convinced they are lying to her. Jacob’s Ladder is an entertaining story with a classic English village setting rich in intrigue and deception. Elizabeth, even in the throes of her blues, is a lively and perceptive sleuth.
Manchester Evening News 22/09/00
(
Cath Staincliffe
- Author of the highly acclaimed Sal Kilkenny Mysteries set on the Mean Streets of Manchester)
