False Impression
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Bea Abbot's friend Leon Holland has asked for her help in establishing an alibi. But why would he need one? First, he tells her, he had a narrow escape from being run down in the road, and then he was lured with a mysterious message to a car park to meet someone who didn't turn up. Matters escalate when two bodies are found in the car park, slumped over their steering wheels, stabbed to death. Then everything is thrown into chaos as a devastating virus infects the agency's systems. A hidden camera. Hate mail. A nasty practical joke. It's clear that the Abbott Agency has been targeted. But why? And where is it leading? Bea is about to find herself drawn into a vicious power struggle involving greed, envy, ambition and tangled family relationships.
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Veronica Heley. (2015). False Impression. Severn House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Veronica Heley. 2015. False Impression. Severn House.
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In Heley’s satisfying ninth Abbot Agency mystery (after 2013’s False Diamond), Bea Abbot, a practicing Christian who runs a “successful domestic agency from her house in an upmarket London suburb,” faces a host of problems. First, successful businessman Leon Holland, a good friend who often escorts her to social functions, fears for his life. A van nearly ran him down in the road recently. Bea agrees to help him go into temporary hiding at a hotel. Meanwhile, the agency’s computer system has a virus, and Bea’s lodger, Leon’s niece, takes in a man who needs a place to stay, Orlando. Later, Bea learns that text messages lured Leon and Orland to a car park. The two found the bodies of a man and a woman in their respective cars, and now the police have a murder case to solve. Heley evokes the upper-middle-class world to which the Abbot Agency caters with subtlety and restraint. The frenetic pace of the early chapters gradually slows to a surprising conclusion.
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Bea Abbot's domestic-services agency is ticking along nicely, and she's feeling content with life, even though her house seems to be a haven for a succession of adult waifs and strays. One such is Dilys Holland, the daughter of wealthy businessman Briscoe Holland. Coincidentally, Briscoe's brother, Leon, is Bea's old friend and would-be lover. When Leon shows up, dreadfully worried about something he won't share with Bea, she finds herself drawn into a case that will have life-changing implications. At first, a deadly computer virus, a deluge of hate mail, two dead bodies, a nasty practical joke, and an assault on Bea's beloved home don't seem related, but Bea soon starts to see connections. Bea's friend, Detective Inspector Durrell, initially pooh-poohs Bea's ideas, but as the drama increases and the bodies pile up, even he sees that she could be right. All it takes is one final mind-boggling revelation to uncover the entire ugly, tragic, greed-driven story. Solid writing, larger-than-life characters, plenty of twists, and a lovable, Miss Marplelike heroine make for an entertaining and satisfying read.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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