To Perish in Penzance

I found this a very sad thought provoking read. A chance meeting with a young model while on holiday to try to clear ghosts from one of Alan's old cases. Alan and Dorothy meet one of his former colleagues who invites him to a party. Lexa goes with them but within days she is found dead. Her back sto......more

When he was a young police officer in Cornwall just starting his career, Alan Nesbitt came across a dead woman in a coastal cave; the autopsy revealed a large dose of LSD in her system and, it being 1968, it was assumed that she took the drug and then, either in a fit of despondency or because the d......more

Alan speaks about a murder he failed to solve, when he first became a DI in Cornwall. It haunts him to this day. Dorothy is fed up with the constant rain and proposes a holiday to Cornwall, with the idea of laying to rest this case that worries her lovely hubby. Although she hasn't told him this is t......more

Dorothy Martin, of a certain age and newly-widowed, leaves America for England, hoping to find peace and the chance to grieve. Instead, she finds friendship, a place in a community, and unexpectedly, a new love. But she also finds more dead bodies than any one person might expect in a lifetime. Book......more

I was really enjoying this series but in this book Dorothy comes off so judgemental and rather unbelievably so. A woman her age certainly would have heard rock n roll before— if she grew up in the 1860’s her sour attitude might have played better. That someone who was young in London in the 1960’s d......more