Murder On Mustique, Anne Glenconner
Murder On Mustique, Anne Glenconner
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Murder On Mustique
from the author of the bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting

Author: Anne Glenconner

Narrator: Ben Bailey Smith, Harriet Walter, Jane Collingwood

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2020

Synopsis

A storm. A disappearance. A race against time...

Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return.

Detective Sergeant Samuel Wilton is just 28 years old and the island's only fully trained police officer. He quickly realises he needs to contact Lord and Lady Innerleithen, who bought the island decades ago and have invested time, money and love creating a paradise. Jasper is in St Lucia designing a new village of luxury villas but Lady Veronica (Vee to her friends) catches a plane immediately. Her beloved god-daughter, Lily, is on the island and this disappearance has alarming echoes of what happened to Lily's mother many years ago. Lady Vee would never desert a friend in need, and she can keep a cool head in a crisis.

When Amanda's body is found, a murder investigation begins. Wilton knows the killer must be an islander because flights and ferry crossings have stopped due to the storm warning, but the local community isn't co-operating. And then the storm hits, and someone else disappears ...

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

About Anne Glenconner

Lady Glenconner was born Lady Anne Coke in 1932, the eldest daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, and growing up in their ancestral estate at Holkham Hall in Norfolk. A Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation, she married Lord Glenconner in 1956. They had 5 children together of whom 3 survive. In 1958 she and her husband began to transform the island of Mustique into a paradise for the rich and famous. They granted a plot of land to Princess Margaret who built her favourite home there. She was appointed Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret in 1971 and kept this role - accompanying her on many state occasions and foreign tours - until her death in 2002. Lord Glenconner died in 2010, leaving everything in his will to his former employee. She now lives in a farmhouse near Kings Lynn in Norfolk.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on June 29, 2021

It's light (except for the Murders) exotic and has an older lady as one of the main characters (sound familiar?) A mixture of fact and fiction merged together to give you a fun read but there was a little too much "white saviour" and name dropping to make it a truely good read. Enjoyable but forgett......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on November 11, 2020

Murder on Mustique is a unique mix of fact and fiction but quite how much you can attribute to each is up for debate. Lord and Lady Veronica ”Vee” Blake own the island and just as they are making plans for their goddaughter Lily Calder’s 21st birthday celebrations a tragedy happens. Lily is a conser......more

Goodreads review by Tripfiction on November 14, 2020

"Visit" MUSTIQUE This is our one and only (so far) novel set on Mustique, a private island, well known for its association with the rich and famous. So this novel was a must-read for TripFiction. Mustique is a bastardisation of the French word mosquito, so the island does have its down sides. Princess......more

Goodreads review by Amanda - on December 02, 2020

*[URL not allowed] ‘It strikes Nile that, no matter what, Mustique always looks beautiful. The setting sun is casting lilac and gold streaks across the sky, but his anger is still red hot.’ A novel packed with prestige, sophistication, innuendo and suspicion, Murder on Mustique is......more

Goodreads review by Deb on September 23, 2022

Such an interesting book! My daughter bought me this for my birthday, it’s a signed copy and that was one of the main reasons she chose it (I’ve never read anything by this author, or heard of her before now). Mustique is a real island and she really was Lady In Waiting, to Princess Margaret! So, do......more

Quotes

Dazzling . . . full of glamour, intrigue and gossip Telegraph Magazine

Packed with glamorous detail, the novel gives a sense of behind-the-scenes familiarity with the playground of the rich and famous . . . along with fascinating hints of the more troubled side of paradise Daily Mail

Anne Glenconner's memoir Lady In Waiting, which recalled her long friendship with Princess Margaret, was a runaway bestseller last year. This polished thriller evokes the same gilded world . . . A well-plotted thriller that unfolds at a clip . . . it's sure to find readers among fans of Lady In Waiting Daily Express

What makes this vicarious Caribbean holiday worth taking is the pleasure of our hostess's company - the book is suffused not just with mere charm, but with the author's genuine, and genuinely attractive, personality Sunday Telegraph

Like slipping into a bath after a long, cold day i paper, Best books for Christmas 2020

captures the outrageous lifestyle of its wealthy and privileged denizens . . . huge fun from start to finish Irish Independent

A tropical whodunnit and a race against time Woman

A tantalising fact-and-fiction mix Daily Express

Lady Vee combines high-octane charm with redoubtable forensic skills. Daily Mail

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