Miss Sharp Investigates Series by Leonie Swann

Eigentlich hat Agnes Sharp mit der Hüfte, dem Treppenlift und den Bewohnern ihrer umtriebigen Senioren-WG genug zu tun. Und dann ist da auch noch die Tote im Schuppen. Und die Tote im Nachbarsgarten... moreEigentlich hat Agnes Sharp mit der Hüfte, dem Treppenlift und den Bewohnern ihrer umtriebigen Senioren-WG genug zu tun. Und dann ist da auch noch die Tote im Schuppen. Und die Tote im Nachbarsgarten. Ganz klar: das englische Idyll trügt, und ein perfider Mörder hat es auf alte Damen abgesehen! Kurzentschlossen machen sich die streitbaren Senioren samt Schildkröte auf Mörderjagd – eine Suche, die sie nicht nur auf das trügerische Parkett des örtlichen Kaffeetreffs führt, sondern auch in den dubiosen Lindenhof und schließlich tief in die eigene Vergangenheit. Denn auch Agnes und ihre Mitbewohner haben das eine oder andere Geheimnis zu hüten … less

This highly anticipated follow-up to The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp finds Agnes and her octogenarian friends face-to-face with a killer after winning a trip to a beautiful hotel in the seaside town of Cornwall.The year is rapidly drawing to an end, Hettie the tortoise is hibernating and Agnes, Charlie, Marshall, and the other elderly residents of Sunset Hall are going stir-crazy at home. They’ve had enough of the broken boiler, draughty bedrooms, and Christmas jingles on the radio... moreThis highly anticipated follow-up to The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp finds Agnes and her octogenarian friends face-to-face with a killer after winning a trip to a beautiful hotel in the seaside town of Cornwall.The year is rapidly drawing to an end, Hettie the tortoise is hibernating and Agnes, Charlie, Marshall, and the other elderly residents of Sunset Hall are going stir-crazy at home. They’ve had enough of the broken boiler, draughty bedrooms, and Christmas jingles on the radio. And to top it all off, another series of murders is rocking the hamlet of Duck End. It seems like every villager and his dog is trying to make up for all of the thwarted murders of the past thirty years.Most unpleasant! The residents of Sunset Hall don’t want anything to do with the criminal activities. So when Edwina manages to slip onto Marshall’s computer in an unobserved moment and promptly wins a stay in an exclusive coastal hotel in Cornwall, the Sunset Hall crew doesn’t waste any time in deciding to join her. After all, Edwina can’t be left unsupervised.But they’ve barely unpacked their bags when Agnes sees something unsettling from the terrace of the hotel: two figures in hoods walk away from the hotel along the cliffs, but only one returns. Worried she’s witnessed a murder, Agnes tells the others. At first nobody really believes her, after all the crew have enough to do working their way through the incredible menu, exploring the hotel’s wellness-landscape, navigating old and new love affairs and adopting a boa constrictor. But when the hotel ends up isolated from the outside world after a storm, it becomes clear that a murderer really is on the loose—and they’re trapped, just like all of the other guests! less