The Lamorna Wink
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Publisher Description
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series--now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant....
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her 16th Richard Jury mystery, Grimes delays the great man's appearance until late in the game, but the novel is nonetheless as consuming as its 15 predecessors (most recently, The Stargazey, 1998). Here, Jury's pal Melrose Plant leases Seabourne, a lovely oceanside house in Cornwall, where four years earlier two children died from an inexplicable fall down a flight of stone steps. Their parents fled to London; their grandfather, who owns Seabourne, refitted a local stately home into a hospice/nursing home, where he now lives. Melrose befriends Johnny Wells, a vivacious teenager with ambitions to become a magician, who lives with his Aunt Chris. When Chris vanishes and another woman, whom Chris detested, is found dead in neighboring Lamorna, Melrose calls Div. Comdr. Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwall Police Department, whom Plant and Jury first met as a hot-tempered constable in Help the Poor Struggler. As two more murders follow, Melrose and Macalvie realize they are investigating two different cases, with vengeance the motive for one, the other connected to a child pornography ring. At last, Jury arrives fresh from a case in Northern Ireland and helps solve the crimes, past and present, although it is the hypochondriac Sergeant Wiggins (now hooked on the Bromo Seltzer he discovered in Baltimore in The Horse You Came In On, 1993), whose voluminous note taking leads to the linchpin clue. In addition to richly portrayed characters and stunningly described settings, the tangled plot is strewn with a host of genuine clues, as well as red herrings that beguile as effectively as they mislead. Grimes fans will be particularly intrigued as Melrose contemplates his childhood, revealing more about his complex personality than ever before. Mystery Guild main selection; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates; 12-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
Lamorna Wink
Martha Grimes can always teach me something I didn't know before and Melrose Plant can always make me smile. However he was in some scenes in THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON & now LAMORNA WINK had me laughing out loud & couldn't stop. It felt so good! The main mystery was no laughing matter but she handled it in a very intelligent & informative way & got the message out there about the problem to be looked at, not ignored as it has been because it has always been hush hush.
She is one of my favorite authors. All of her books are good but this series has me getting every one and always wishing for a new addition. Besides having different story lines which aren't the 'same old same old' her characters grow, we learn different things about or something is elaborated on or explained and a feeling of "Oh that's why" makes everything complete. Martha Grimes is just good for a good read that isn't too weighty or has no substance.