Murder on an abandoned estate
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Murder on an abandoned estate
14.99 €
An abandoned English estate. Missing portrait. Killed caretaker.
This is not the kind of legacy she expected.
After surviving the death of her mother, divorce and loss of a job at a publishing house over the past year, American Joe Jones suddenly inherits a family estate in the north of Yorkshire. That’s just waiting for her not a luxurious palace, but a gloomy mansion, empty for more than a hundred years. With a hole in the roof, mold in the corners, a running garden and a nearly rotten library. However, Joe, who has truly encyclopedic knowledge, but is timid about communicating with people, is not afraid. She enthusiastically takes up the restoration of the estate and study the history of the family, about which she knows almost nothing.
And then Joe finds the lifeless body of the caretaker of his new home with three bullet wounds in his back. And he realizes he could be the prime suspect in a murder. At the same time, a special portrait disappears from a secret room in the mansion, strangely connected with the discovered corpse and with the mysterious history of her family.
With the help of a Welsh antiques dealer, a sullen local detective and the wife of a pub owner, Joe must find the missing painting. And at the same time reveal the extremely unpleasant secrets of a small town and his own family. And all this she must do before the killer strikes another blow. .
This is not the kind of legacy she expected.
After surviving the death of her mother, divorce and loss of a job at a publishing house over the past year, American Joe Jones suddenly inherits a family estate in the north of Yorkshire. That’s just waiting for her not a luxurious palace, but a gloomy mansion, empty for more than a hundred years. With a hole in the roof, mold in the corners, a running garden and a nearly rotten library. However, Joe, who has truly encyclopedic knowledge, but is timid about communicating with people, is not afraid. She enthusiastically takes up the restoration of the estate and study the history of the family, about which she knows almost nothing.
And then Joe finds the lifeless body of the caretaker of his new home with three bullet wounds in his back. And he realizes he could be the prime suspect in a murder. At the same time, a special portrait disappears from a secret room in the mansion, strangely connected with the discovered corpse and with the mysterious history of her family.
With the help of a Welsh antiques dealer, a sullen local detective and the wife of a pub owner, Joe must find the missing painting. And at the same time reveal the extremely unpleasant secrets of a small town and his own family. And all this she must do before the killer strikes another blow. .
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