Paperback: After an eventful previous year, Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown is adjusting to life in Windermere, running her florist shop and trying to put her tragic past behind her.
But just when Simmy thinks her life is quietly coming together at last, it begins to unravel at the seams.
With the delivery of a bouquet of flowers to an elderly lady - complete with mysterious message attached - old and sinister secrets come creeping into the light.
When another old woman is found dead in her own home, Simmy is drawn into the centre of a murder investigation.
With the prime suspect naming Simmy as his alibi, the unfortunate florist knows her peaceful existence in the Lake District is about to be shaken once again.
While trying to rebuild her own life, Simmy must untangle the murky lives of others and uncover the motive behind a mysterious killing.
The Ambleside Alibi (2013) is the second book in the well-written Lake District Mystery Series.
About the author: Rebecca Tope, a British crime novelist and journalist, lives on a smallholding in Herefordshire, where she plants trees and watches wild birds, but manages to travel the world and enjoy civilisation from time to time as well. Most of her varied experiences and activities find their way into her books, sooner or later. In 1992, she founded Praxis books, a small British press.
She is the author of three murder mystery series, featuring the fictional characters of Den Cooper, a Devon police detective, Drew Slocombe, a former nurse, now an undertaker, Thea Osborne, a house sitter in the Cotswolds, and Persimmon Brown, a florist in the Lake District. Her books are set in real English villages. She uses a kind of "anti research", avoiding discussion with any of the villagers, but does walk along the footpaths and visits most of the village pubs.
She is currently working on a biography of Sabine Baring-Gould. Tope is also ghost writer of the novels based on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme.
Rating: 5/5
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