A Brush with Death A Penny Brannigan Mystery

by Duncan, Elizabeth J.

• ISBN13: 9780312534271
• ISBN10: 0312534272
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-26
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Summary

The nail-biting adventures of a manicurist-turned-amateur sleuth continue when Penny Brannigan inherits a charming cottage in Northern Wales--and happens upon an unsolved, decades-old crime. Martin's Press.

Author Biography

Elizabeth J. Duncan has worked as a writer and editor for some of Canada's largest newspapers, including the Ottawa Citizen and Hamilton Spectator. She lives with her dog, Dolly, in Toronto where she teaches in the public relations program at Humber College. She enjoys spending time each year in North Wales and is the first Canadian writer to win the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition. The Cold Light of Mourning, her first novel, is also the winner of the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant and was shortlisted for an Agatha and an Arthur Ellis Award.

Table of Contents

The nail-biting adventures of a manicurist turned amateur sleuth continue in A BRUSH WITH DEATH when Penny Brannigan inherits a charming cottage in Northern Wales—and happens upon an unsolved, decades-old crime.

An accidental discovery…

When Penny moves to her cottage in the small Welsh town of Llanelen and begins sorting through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of love letters from a promising young Liverpool artist named A. Jones. An artist herself, Penny sets out to discover more about this mysterious painter who met a tragic end in an accident in 1970.

Paints things in a different light.

While at a retrospective art exhibition in Liverpool, Penny recognizes what she believes to be a watercolor painted by Jones. But it is attributed to another artist. Helped once more by a small group of townsfolk, including her enterprising business partner, Victoria Hopkirk, Penny sets out to prove her suspicion that art theft is at the heart of the case, and that Jones’s death was no accident.

“Readers who enjoy the English village cozy mysteries of Dorothy Cannell and Nancy Atherton will want to take a look at this series.”—Booklist