A Killer in King's Cove

Name: A Killer in King's Cove
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Iona Whishaw
ISBN: 9781771513517

Author: Iona Whishaw

Series: A Lane Winslow Mystery #1

Narrator: Marilla Wex

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 10/15/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

A smart and enchanting postwar mystery that will appeal to fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds herself happily settled into a sleepy hamlet in the interior of British Columbia surrounded by a suitably eclectic cast of small-town characters she feels like she may finally be able to put her past to rest.But then a body is discovered, the victim of murder, and although she works alongside the town's inspectors Darling and Ames to discover who might have possibly have motivation to kill, she unknowingly casts doubt on herself. As the investigation reveals facts that she has desperately tried to keep a secret, it threatens to pull her into a vortex of even greater losses than the ones she has already endured.A clever postwar mystery that will appeal to fans the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear or the Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 15, 2022

Canada … “a new, clean, uncomplicated country with no blood in the soil from centuries of wars” Lane Winslow, an erstwhile MI-6 intelligence officer in a Europe that has been torn limb from limb by the ravages of World War II, wants to start over. She chose to move thousands of isolated miles away f......more

Goodreads review by Elinor on June 04, 2017

I really enjoyed this cozy mystery for a bunch of reasons: - the time period (right after the Second World War, with flashbacks to the heroine's wartime experiences as a spy); - the plucky heroine Lane Winslow (who moves from war-shattered England and buys a farmhouse in rural Canada to start her li......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on April 27, 2025

Lanette “Lane” Winslow has relocated to British Columbia in 1946, a time when that province was very rural. Lane wants to escape the loss of her beloved and her career as a British spy. The 26-year-old has settled in tiny King’s Cove, a village so isolated that fewer than a dozen families live there......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on May 19, 2018

Lane Winslow served as an MI-6 agent during World War 2 and is ready to leave that life behind when the war ends. She moves to a small town in Canada in hopes of starting over. But the weary and intelligent protagonist is not to find peace in Canada when a murder happens soon after she arrives. Whis......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 01, 2024

This is the first in the Lane Winslow mystery series. It is also the author’s debut novel. And, in this story, the author brings a rural country town from the 1940’s to life. Life is starting over for Lane as she is settling into small town life after serving as an undercover intelligence officer du......more