Category:
Mysteries
Regular value:
$3.99
Deal value:
$1.99
Deal begins:
December 20, 2022
Deal ends:
December 20, 2022
“Delightful.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Charming and exciting…the perfect cozy mystery, with a brilliant heroine you’re sure to adore.”
—Apple Books,Best of the Month Selection
Set in a captivating British village throughout World War II, Stephanie Graves’ debut thriller introduces Olive Bright, a spirited younger pigeon fancier who finds herself on the coronary heart of a baffling homicide. . . .
Though conflict rages throughout mainland Europe and London is strafed by German plane, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles alongside a lot because it at all times has. Adrift since her greatest good friend, George, joined the Royal Air Force, twenty-two-year-old Olive Bright fills her days by serving to at her father’s veterinary follow and tending to her beloved racing pigeons. Desperate to do her bit, Olive hopes that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts’ experience, and use their extremely skilled birds to ship essential, coded messages for His Majesty’s Forces.
The strangers who arrive in Pipley are usually not from the NPS. Instead, Jameson Aldridge and his affiliate are tied to a covert British intelligence group often called Baker Street. If Olive needs her pigeons to assist the conflict effort, she should achieve this in full secrecy. Tired of dwelling vicariously by way of the characters of her beloved Agatha Christie novels, Olive readily agrees. But within the midst of her subterfuge, the village of Pipley is coping with one other thriller. Local busybody Miss Husselbee is discovered lifeless outdoors Olive’s pigeon loft. Is the homicide tied to Olive’s new task? Or did Miss Husselbee lastly reach ferreting out a secret shameful sufficient to kill for? With the gruff, good-looking Jameson as an unlikely ally, Olive intends to search out out—however homing in on a assassin generally is a lethal enterprise . . .
“Utterly charming… A marvelous read.”
—Tasha Alexander, New York Times bestselling writer of In the Shadow of Vesuvius
“Smart, energetic, and witty.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A fresh, quirky, and charming new heroine.”
—Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling writer of the Edgar-nominated Maggie Hope collection
“Entertaining.”
—Criminal Element
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