The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp

Informationen zum Autor Leonie Swann; translated by Amy Bojang Klappentext A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of an enterprising tortoise—in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full. It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and gluttonous grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith). It seems the answer to their little problem with Lillith may have fallen right into their laps. All they have to do is find out who murdered their neighbor, so they can pin Lillith’s death on them, thus killing two (old) birds with one stone (cold killer). With their plan sorted, Agnes and her geriatric gang spring into action. After all, everybody likes a good mystery. Besides, the more suspicion they can cast about, surely the less will land on them. To investigate, they will step out of their comfort zone and tangle with sinister bakers, broken stairlifts, inept criminals, the local authorities, and their own dark secrets. Leseprobe 1 Edwina’s Biscuits The doorbell rang, and Agnes Sharp abandoned the search for her false teeth, simultaneously pleased and annoyed.      Pleased that she had even heard the doorbell—her ears hadn’t really been playing along recently, and sometimes all she could hear was a high-pitched, nerve-jangling ringing, accompanied by a rushing sound. So, the doorbell was a welcome change.      On the other hand, it would be quite embarrassing to open the door without the aforementioned false teeth, unclear and toothless. But the caller had to be gotten rid of before he had the idea of going snooping around in the garden—teeth or no teeth.       “I’m coming! Juft a minute!” Agnes bellowed into the hall, then she sallied forth. Out of the room. Mind the threshold! And then the stairs. A step forward, a step down, then bring down the other foot. A vertigo-inducing moment without any sense of balance, a deep breath, then gather courage for the next step down. And so on. Twenty-six times.      A minute, my foot!      The doorbell rang again.      Her hip grumbled.      The doorbell rang once more.      “Juft one moment, for God fake!” When she reached the first landing, a real rage had built up in her, towards the stairs, the caller, the renegade false teeth, but also her housemates. Why did she always get the difficult jobs? Like scaling the stairs. Or taking out the bins. Or . . . absolutely everything!      Edwina would have made it down the stairs somewhat quicker, but she would of course have been useless at the door. Bernadette was sitting in her room crying her blind eyes out. At this time Marshall was mostly somewhere on the Internet, unreachable, connected to the computer as if by the umbilical cord. And you obviously couldn’t expect Winston to attempt the descent without the stairlift.      Why had nobody repaired the stupid stairlift?      Then Agnes remembered that it had been her job to call for it to be repaired, but with her unreliable hearing and her aversion to the telephone she had kept putting it off. It was her own fault then, as so often seemed to be the case these days.      The only scapegoat left was the caller, and her rage towards him was mounting.      She had mastered the last step and was dragging herself to the front door with a calculated slowness accompanied by the doorbe...

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Leonie Swann; translated by Amy Bojang

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• Authors: Amy Bojang, Leonie Swann
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2023
• EAN: 9781641294331
• ISBN: 978-1-64129-433-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 217 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Miss Sharp Investigates
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense