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The Lamorna Wink

by Martha Grimes · 1999

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Five years ago in Cornwall, two children disappeared from their beds and were found mysteriously drowned. When a woman is murdered nearby, the police look for a connection between the deaths. Melrose Plant, renting the children's empty home, is caught up in the inquiry, and soon Richard Jury arrives to investigate.

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Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages

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