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A Wreath of Lilies
(2023)(The second book in the Miss Gascoigne Mystery series)
A novel by Caron Allan
Reviewers of A Meeting With Murder: Miss Gascoigne mysteries book 1 said:
'Every character becomes someone you know, someone you grow to like or dislike as Allan draws you in, not as a spectator, but as a participator. An outsider who becomes so enthralled with the events as they unfold that you actually can not help but want to try and solve this plot before anyone else does. Mystery, intrigue, suspense, romance, and nostalgia. This book has it all!'
'another great cosy mystery which we're so used to with this author… the description of the town and characters was so vivid it was like I was part of the community'
'Set in the 60s, the novel is rich in period detail with fabulous descriptions of the homes and the clothing, and a great ‘ear’ for the dialogue of the time… A cracking book, peopled with memorable characters'
'Good read, I liked it! I also liked that the story was a continuation of a beloved series. Its new for me to read a book set in the swinging sixties'
A Wreath of Lilies: Miss Gascoigne mysteries book 2
an intriguing cosy mystery set in the swinging 60s
The Miss Gascoigne mysteries are a series of traditional amateur detective mysteries set in Britain in the 'Swinging 60s' and featuring Diana 'Dee' Gascoigne as an amateur detective who stumbles over dead bodies almost as often as your average dog-walker. Between jobs and with a penchant for solving a mystery, she is aided and abetted by her brother Rob, a trainee barrister, who helps her to pit her wits against the 'official' team of investigators, which sometimes includes her 'kind-of cousin', Inspector Bill Hardy, and his sidekick, Sergeant Nahum 'Nat' Porter.
On her first 'official' investigator case working for Montague Montague of London, legal services, Dee Gascoigne is off to the village of Hartwell Priory in Essex, where locals are up in arms over the proposal to dig up their deceased ancestors buried in the local cemetery, in order to make way for three hundred new houses.
As if things aren't tense enough, a group of beatnik-like long-haired, bead wearing ghost hunters arrive and hold a séance. A message from beyond the grave seems to indicate that a grave has been forgotten.
Is this just a prank, or was it a secret burial? Who is the unclaimed one who has not been mourned?
Short extract from A Wreath of Lilies: Miss Gascoigne mysteries book 2:
She came towards him through the field of buttercups and tall swaying grasses. Her light cotton dress fluttered about her in the breeze. Her hair, backcombed for fulness, was gathered into two beribboned ponytails that trailed over her shoulders. Her nose was littered with new freckles. Sun-kisses, they used to say when he was a child. How he would have liked to kiss her now.
'You look about five,' he grumbled.
She stood on tip-toe to kiss his rough cheek. 'Hello Inspector Grumpy. Are you here about the murder?'
***
Genre: Mystery
'Every character becomes someone you know, someone you grow to like or dislike as Allan draws you in, not as a spectator, but as a participator. An outsider who becomes so enthralled with the events as they unfold that you actually can not help but want to try and solve this plot before anyone else does. Mystery, intrigue, suspense, romance, and nostalgia. This book has it all!'
'another great cosy mystery which we're so used to with this author… the description of the town and characters was so vivid it was like I was part of the community'
'Set in the 60s, the novel is rich in period detail with fabulous descriptions of the homes and the clothing, and a great ‘ear’ for the dialogue of the time… A cracking book, peopled with memorable characters'
'Good read, I liked it! I also liked that the story was a continuation of a beloved series. Its new for me to read a book set in the swinging sixties'
A Wreath of Lilies: Miss Gascoigne mysteries book 2
an intriguing cosy mystery set in the swinging 60s
The Miss Gascoigne mysteries are a series of traditional amateur detective mysteries set in Britain in the 'Swinging 60s' and featuring Diana 'Dee' Gascoigne as an amateur detective who stumbles over dead bodies almost as often as your average dog-walker. Between jobs and with a penchant for solving a mystery, she is aided and abetted by her brother Rob, a trainee barrister, who helps her to pit her wits against the 'official' team of investigators, which sometimes includes her 'kind-of cousin', Inspector Bill Hardy, and his sidekick, Sergeant Nahum 'Nat' Porter.
On her first 'official' investigator case working for Montague Montague of London, legal services, Dee Gascoigne is off to the village of Hartwell Priory in Essex, where locals are up in arms over the proposal to dig up their deceased ancestors buried in the local cemetery, in order to make way for three hundred new houses.
As if things aren't tense enough, a group of beatnik-like long-haired, bead wearing ghost hunters arrive and hold a séance. A message from beyond the grave seems to indicate that a grave has been forgotten.
Is this just a prank, or was it a secret burial? Who is the unclaimed one who has not been mourned?
Short extract from A Wreath of Lilies: Miss Gascoigne mysteries book 2:
She came towards him through the field of buttercups and tall swaying grasses. Her light cotton dress fluttered about her in the breeze. Her hair, backcombed for fulness, was gathered into two beribboned ponytails that trailed over her shoulders. Her nose was littered with new freckles. Sun-kisses, they used to say when he was a child. How he would have liked to kiss her now.
'You look about five,' he grumbled.
She stood on tip-toe to kiss his rough cheek. 'Hello Inspector Grumpy. Are you here about the murder?'
***
Genre: Mystery
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