Someone just can’t wait for old Aunt Marigold’s heart to give out. The ladies of the parish just love Father Luke… A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, Mosaic is both a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees, and a fascinating insight into the workings of genealogy.Īn anthology of orginial traditional mystery storiesIncluding Agatha Christie’s classic mystery The Case of the Discontented SoldierWith fourteen Christie inspired tales from today’s most talented mystery writersDig into a toxic treat of murder most foul from the devious minds of the finest writers Robert Bernard Jan Burke Kate Charles Marjorie Eccles Teri Holbrook Gwen Moffat Marcia Talley Dorothy Cannell Charles Todd Ann Granger Walter Satterthwait Carolyn Wheat Susan Moody Sample some delectable bits of malicious motives…Īnd most intriguing murders Residents of an old age home have a killer of a plan for dealing with chronic complainers. There is the death of the fearsome headmaster at his school, who was murdered by one of the boys after he left: the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist writer Jacques Prevert and a letter from Margaret Forster about the beauty of his mother, that leads to his remarkable account of a decade long affair.
Mosaic, then, is Michael Holroyd’s piecing together of these remarkable stories: some of which are pleasant surprises, other more startling. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon.
But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just beginning.
‘This is a book about surprises at any rate, it has surprised me.’ In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal his own family.
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