Marsh blood - Joanna Marcus (Endel & Lofthouse #2)

For 400 years – on and off – Harbour Inn had been a hostelry. In the off periods it housed boats, nets, sheep, fishermen, smugglers, musketeers awaiting Napoleon, machine-gun crews awaiting Hitler. Now it harboured the duck-hunters, the rich young widow, born Rose Endel, and the physicist, David Lofthouse, just back from Australia.

Two apparent attempts on David’s life were followed by a series of near-fatal and fatal ‘accidents’ which left four people dead. None of it seemed to make sense – until the sea provided Rose and David with the final answer which enabled them to unravel a tapestry of murder.

With A Few Days in Endel, her first mystery novel under the pseudonym of Joanna Marcus, best-selling author Lucilla Andrews created characters and devised a plot which earned her high praise. In Marsh Blood she returns, with the two leading characters from her earlier book, to Romney Marsh and provides an intriguing and skilfully told novel of suspense.