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Product Identifiers

PublisherSevern House

ISBN-100727893017

ISBN-139780727893017

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038419946

Product Key Features

Book TitleFalse Diamond

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicThrillers / General, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Traditional

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreFiction

AuthorVeronica Heley

Book SeriesAn Abbot Agency Mystery Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number8

Dewey Decimal823.914

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

SynopsisA worried mother calls on widowed Bea Abbot - owner of a domestic agency and intrepid senior sleuth - for help in the eighth book in the Abbot Agency cozy mystery series.The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well in her marriage, and the Holland family matriarch, Sybil, calls on Bea Abbot for help. Bea soon discovers that Dilys and her little girl live in fear of her abusive husband, a man called Benton with whom Bea has already clashed.Benton wants Bea to rescue the ailing fortunes of his company, part of the Holland empire, and has no scruples about trying violence on her too when she turns him down. To make matters worse, Bea's Member of Parliament son has tied both his fortune and his marriage to Benton's future and is desperate for Bea to rescue him. Then Dilys tries to commit suicide . . . or does she?, An abusive marriage leads to possible murder in the latest Abbot Agency mystery The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well in her marriage, and the Holland family matriarch, Sybil, calls on Bea Abbot for help. Bea soon discovers that Dilys and her little girl live in fear of her abusive husband, a man called Benton with whom Bea has already clashed. Benton wants Bea to rescue the ailing fortunes of his company, part of the Holland empire, and has no scruples about trying violence on her too when she turns him down. To make matters worse, Bea's Member of Parliament son has tied both his fortune and his marriage to Benton's future and is desperate for Bea to rescue him. Then Dilys tries to commit suicide . . . or does she?, The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well with her marriage. And Bea Abbot has already clashed with Dilys's husband, the bullying Benton, when she refuses to help him rescue his ailing company. But matters are about to turn a great deal worse when Dilys tries to commit suicide. Or does she?