Hannah (Honey) Driver is mid forties, owner of the Green River hotel in Bath and a police liaison officer, owing to her appointment of Crime Liaison Officer on behalf of the Hotels Association.
Hannah (Honey) Driver is mid forties, owner of the Green River hotel in Bath and a police liaison officer, owing to her appointment of Crime Liaison Officer on behalf of the Hotels Association.
On a wet rainy night having been unable to find an excuse she finds herself on a ghost walk with hotel resident Mary Jane – well it is Mary Jane’s birthday. Gathered at the Garrick’s Head they are a wet motley bunch – beside the tour guide Pamela Windsor, Honey and Mary Jane, there are two American couples, a German couple, and a Swedish couple, a young chap, and two middle-ages Australian women who had clearly been imbibing, presumably to keep out the cold. At the last moment a taxi disgorges Lady Templeton-Jones, complete with American accent. Discovering her trainers are not keeping out the rain, Honey squelches along gradually falling behind the rest of the tour, and finds herself level with Lady Templeton-Jones. Conversation seem unwelcome, until she mentions that she owns a hotel and LTJ books herself in. Stopping to give attention to the soggy trainers, on rising she discovers that she is alone, both tour and LTJ have disappeared.
The discovery the next morning of the body of one of the ghost tour brings Honey back into contact with DI Steve Doherty, not an unwelcome event.
But apart from a murder in the town that hotelier Casper St John Gervais wants cleared up quickly so as not to effect the tourist trade, Honey has other problems, her mother the indomitable Gloria Cross who has just been unceremoniously evicted from her shop ‘Second Time Round’ and is threatening to move her business into Honey’s hotel. Additionally Honey’s daughter Lesley has a new and as yet unidentified boyfriend, and she, Honey thinks that she is being stalked. Can things get any worse, of course they can, attempting to find her mother another shop to get her out of her hair she meets the smooth Cameron Wallace.
This is a very good mystery with many twists and turns and some hilarious moments – the best of these being the descriptions of driving with Mary Jane in her pink Cadillac.
This the first book that I have read in this series, But I will be seeking out the earlier ones and looking forward to the next.
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Lizzie Hayes
Earlier books are, Something in the Blood, A Taste to Die For