Death at the sign of the rook Sailing Author(s): HOWARTH

Author(s): HOWARTH

in War & Peace & War North vividly evokes a country where foreign powers and internal forces have been on a collision course for over two centuries

Marguerite Duras

an elastic band

Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate

Death at the sign of the rook Sailing Author(s): HOWARTHWelcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night's end, a murderer will be revealed. Ex detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town, and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting. But one theft leads to another, including the disappearance of a valuable Turner from Burton Makepeace, home to Lady Milton and her family. Once a magnificent country house,