I Died At Fallow Hall

I Died At Fallow Hallow

By Bonnie Burke-Patel

Genre:-Classic Crime & Mystery Fiction/Psychological Thriller/Romantic Suspense/Narrative Theme

Pages:-256

Publisher:-Bedford Square Publishers

Blurb:-The classic Agatha Christie-style country house murder mystery combined with the subjective, searching, contemporary literary novel

Combines terrific plot twists, characters with a rich inner life and a dramatic outer life, and beautiful writing-a must for reading groups.

 Layered and subtle, with more than one crime at its heart; a police procedural but also a novel about identity and self-knowledge and much more.

Anna Deerin moves to a remote Cotswold cottage to become a gardener, trying to strip all her life as a woman striving for, craving the anonymity and privacy her new off-grid life provides. But when she claers the last vegetable bed and digs up not twigs but bones, the outside world is readmitted. With it comes Detective Inspector Hitesh Mistry, who has his own reasons for a new start in the village of Upper Magna.

 Drawn in spite of herself to this unknown woman from another time, Anna is determined to uncover her identity and gain recognition for her, if not justice. As threats to Anna and her new life grow closer, she and DI Mistry will find that this murder is inextricably bound up with issues of gender, family, community, race and British identity itself-all as relevant in decades past as they are to Anna today.

 Praise and reviews 'A hard-hitting mystery drama that simultaneously celebrates and skewers the country house tradition, Bonnie Burke-Patel's debut is beautifully written, told with empathy and a razor-sharp wit. I couldn't put it down'-Seth Insua, author of Human, Animal

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My Review:-Anna Deerin, once a ballerina until she got hurt. Anna now lives a simple life, off-grid on Upper Magna, a little village in the Cotswold. Anna Grows her own fruit and vegetables to sell at the weekly farmers market. While tendering to the gardens, Anna digs up more than just vegetables. The bones she finds are of a young female, but who is it? Detective Inspector Hitesh Mistry has been assigned to the case. It's not long before Anna and DI Mistry are trying to find out more about the body. But has someone got other ideas about them finding out more... Both Anna and DI Mistry have came here from London and have a past that they are happy to leave behind.

Gender, family, community, identity and race all related within this book.