good story about Marnie, a talented interior designer who decides to leave a well paid secure job in London to start her own company. She buys a disused farm in a small village just north of Milton Keynes on the Grand Union Canal, with the intention of converting it to an office and cottages. As the premises are ruins she has to live on 'Sally Ann', her sisters boat. The village has a long history and many of the families have ancestors that lived in the village during the Civil War. When a murder is committed it looks like hatred from 350 years ago has resurfaced to claim another victim. There seem to be quite a few people with various motives and opportunities to have committed murder but why would any of them want to go to such extreme lengths.

Getaway with Murder

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

McNeir, Leo

Mystery

Enigma Publishing

Death in Little Venice

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

No Secrets

Sally Ann's Summer

Smoke and Mirrors

Stick in the Mud

It was going to be a long hot summer … And it all started so well for Marnie Walker at her beautiful canalside home, with a growing business, a settled relationship with Ralph and the company of her close friend and colleague, Anne with an ‘e’. There would be outings on her narrowboat, Sally Ann. She would be helping a summer playscheme for local children. There was even the offer of an exciting new project in Italy. A golden summer full of promise stretched ahead. But would that promise be fulfilled? Change is in the air. Disturbing forces are on the move, bringing mayhem to the streets of neighbouring cities and threatening the community. A new colleague comes to join the firm to handle the Italian job, with a handsome lover in tow. A charismatic politician arrives in the area, whipping up uncomfortable feelings and prejudices. The long hot summer becomes explosive. In the middle of all this, a strange boat arrives, unlike any they have seen before. It soon becomes clear that its owner has a mysterious and possibly sinister past, and they begin to wonder if he is involved in the troubles erupting around them. Riots, bombings, street battles and inexplicable murders follow each other in rapid succession to make this a long hot summer that Marnie and her friends will never forget. Especially Anne. And as usual the questions that have been hanging over them all are not finally resolved until the last page. Praise for Leo Mcneir '...intelligent entertainment for the intelligent reader’- The Citizen ‘His are the only books our reviewer has read twice, just for the fun of it.’- Canal & Riverboat Leo McNeir is a linguist and lexicographer. As director of The European Language Initiative he compiled and edited twelve dictionaries in fifteen languages, including English, since the first one was published by Cassell in 1993.

Devil in the Detail

Independently published

Angels

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