Pretty Maids All in a Row (DCI Webb Mystery Book 3)

Pretty Maids All in a Row (DCI Webb Mystery Book 3)

<b>‘A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read’ – <em>Booklist</em></b><br /><br />When newly wedded actress Jessica Randal accompanies her biographer husband to the country for a month's research, she fully expects to be bored, especially with her leg in plaster following an accident on their honeymoon. <br /><br />The couple are the talk of the town - but not for the reasons you might expect. <br /><br />They soon learn they are renting the house of a murder victim, and that a rapist is at large who has singled Jessica out. <br /><br />Jessica, caught in the melodrama of the not so sleepy town of Steeple Bayliss, is determined to keep her independence.<br /><br />But at what cost?<br /><br />Chief Inspector Webb and Sergeant Jackson pit their wits against a cunning adversary as everyone in the village — including Jessica's husband — is under suspicion... <br /><br /><em>Pretty Maids All in a Row</em> is a gripping crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser's popular detective David Webb. <br /><br /><h2>Praise for Anthea Fraser</h2><br /><br /><b>‘Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self, withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall’ - <em>Sunday Times</em></b><br /><br /><b>’A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story’ - <em>Birmingham Post</em></b><br /><br /><b>‘Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings’ - <em>Yorkshire Post </em></b><br /><br /><b>Anthea Fraser</b> has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her novels include <em>The Seven Stars</em>, <em>The Ten Commandments</em>, <em>Death Speaks Softly</em> and <em>Pretty Maids All in a Row</em>.