Spin and Die (Severn House Large Print) - Hardcover

Whitelaw, Stella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727871935 ISBN 13: 9780727871930

Publisher: Severn House, 2002

Synopsis

Jordan Lacey, the eccentric PI, takes on her new cases with verve and ingenuity. She is hired to follow Sonia Spiller, a woman suspected of a compensation fraud against a Latching department store. She is then asked to take on a second case in the same store - tracking down vanishing stock whilst posing as a temporary sales assistant. It's Christmas time and she even helps DI James buy a present for his mother...But when a man spins to his death on Hell's Revenge, a high-tech funfair ride, Jordan realises that the two cases are horribly linked. The situation becomes even more complicated when a JCB destroys the local bowling pavilion revealing some grisly remains. Jordan is accused of being a stalker and she ends up trapped in a waterwheel...Can she rely on DI James to come to her rescue?

About this title

About the Author:

Whitelaw began her writing career as a cub reporter on a newspaper and becme the youngest female chief reporter in London. She has had over thirty novels published, as well as approximately 230 short stories.

From Booklist:

The third Jordan Lacey mystery is a mixed blessing for fans of the plucky, offbeat British PI. Jordan is as delightful as ever, trying to get her detecting career going while operating a high-end junk shop in the seaside small town of Latching, but the premise is wearing a little thin. This is her third appearance, and she doesn't seem to have made any progress since her first adventure: she's still taking on several cases at once to make ends meet (here, she's tailing a suspected insurance fraud, checking out a case of vandalism, and looking into a series of violent robberies); still stumbling through her investigations like a gifted amateur; and still winding up in danger and requiring rescue. Readers who like to see series characters develop may get a bit frustrated. Still, the author is a splendid storyteller; Jordan remains a charming character, her inability to grow aside; and there's plenty of fun in these pages. Despite the general air of repetitiveness, the series hasn't nearly worn out its welcome. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0727871935
• ISBN 13: 9780727871930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336