Death at High Tide, Hannah Dennison
Death at High Tide, Hannah Dennison
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Death at High Tide
An Island Sisters Mystery

Author: Hannah Dennison

Narrator: Natalie Duke

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/17/2020


Synopsis

For My Darling Wife: In the Event of My DeathIf you are reading this letter, it means you are the proud owner of Tregarrick Rock Hotel.When Evie Meads husband, Robert, suddenly drops dead of a heart attack, a mysterious note is found among his possessions. It indicates that Evie may own the rights to a crumbling Art Deco hotel on Tregarrick Rock, one of the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall.Still grieving, Evie is inclined to leave the matter to the accountant to sort out. Her sister Margot, however, flown in from her glamorous career in LA, has other plans. Envisioning a luxurious weekend getaway, she goes ahead and buys two tickets to Tregarrick.Once at the hotelmore fixer-upper than spa resortEvie and Margot attempt to get to the bottom of things. But the foul-tempered hotel owner claims he's never met the late Robert, despite mounting evidence. The rest of the island inhabitants, ranging from an ex-con receptionist to a vicar who communicates with cats, aren't any easier to read.When a murder occurs at the hotel and then another soon follows, frustration turns to desperation. Theres no getting off the island at high tide. And Evie and Margot, the only current visitors to Tregarrick, are suspects one and two. It falls to them to unravel secrets spanning generationsand several of their ownif they want to make it back alive.

About Hannah Dennison

Hannah Dennison worked as an obituary reporter, an antique dealer, a private-jet flight attendant, and a Hollywood story analyst before turning to writing novels. For many years, she taught mystery writing workshops at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program in Los Angeles. In addition to the Island Sisters series, she writes the Honeychurch Hall Mysteries and the Vicky Hill Mysteries, both set in the wilds of the Devonshire countryside where she now lives with her two high-spirited Hungarian Vizslas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie

Evie Mead's life takes a huge turn when first her husband dies unexpectedly and then she finds she is the owner of a hotel in the Isles of Sicily. Evie travels with her sister Margot to have a look at the place. They are met with hostility from the man who states he owns the hotel and proclaims he n......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne

I went into Death at High Tide, the debut novel to a new series, without knowing a thing about the book but the blurb and absolutely nothing about the author, Hannah Dennison. I must admit that I went into the book thinking it was super-shallow chick lit, but was I wrong! Our protagonist, newly wido......more