The Devil Drives A Jaaguar

Series: Book 1 of 4 in the DI Matt Piper series

Publisher: Country Books

Date Published: 2002

Book Length: 232

Format: Kindle I purchased myself

About Book: Detective Inspector Matt Piper is having trouble with his marriage, but his work as a policeman takes precedence over everything. His latest case is intriguing, and he gets perhaps a little too involved. Libby Richmond doesn’t believe in ghosts, messages from beyond the grave or any other superstitious nonsense – but when she returns to the old Derbyshire farmhouse to nurse her Great Aunt Lillian through the last stages of terminal illness, she finds all her beliefs turned upside down.Lil wants to discover the truth behind a long-ago family scandal before she dies – and Libby finds herself being drawn in until she too is obsessed with the outcome.Decima Watkins was hanged in 1859 for poisoning three of her older sisters. Now it seems she wants revenge!Libby realizes that there can be no happy ending to this story. Either Decima was a pathetic victim of her father’s fury and a gross miscarriage of justice, or she was the cold-blooded murderess of her own siblings.Whatever the truth, she appears to be taking out her anger on Libby, even managing to inflict physical harm on her hapless descendant.But what is really happening at Hill Farm? Libby has upset quite a few people by supporting Lil when the general opinion is that she should go quietly to a hospice and die there. Is the culprit one of those angry with Libby’s interference? Is it Brendan, the boyfriend she dumped to run off to Derbyshire to be with Lil? Or is Libby simply losing her grip on reality? DI Piper is the one who must discover the truth when he arrests her and listens to her incredible tale.  

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