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A young woman flees in desperation when her family decide her future.
Interior designer Marnie Walker runs her own business from a renovated farm close by the Grand Union Canal. She also owns some beautiful cottages she rents out.
But the bucolic bliss of rural Northamptonshire is shattered by the arrival of secretive tenant Samira Khan. The mysterious Asian beauty stumps up six months’ rent and then locks herself into her canalside retreat. Marnie tries to win Samira’s trust – but gets more than she bargained for as a harrowing story unfolds.
What lies behind a series of racially-motivated attacks in nearby Northampton? Can she find Samira’s family and allay fears about so-called ‘honour killings’? How does Marnie find herself accused first of attempted murder, then murder itself? And who exactly is the victim?
Leo McNeir’s To Have and to Hold is his latest in the popular Marnie Walker crime mystery series, books that have found an appreciative audience among connoisseurs of the genre.
‘… intelligent entertainment for the intelligent reader’ – The Citizen
‘His are the only books our reviewer has read twice, just for the fun of it’– Canal & Riverboat
Leo McNeir is a linguist and lexicographer. As director of The European Language Initiative he compiled and edited twelve dictionaries in fifteen languages, including English, since the first one was published by Cassell in 1993. He has also now completed 12 novels in the Marnie Walker series. Leo and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra McNeir, live in a 300-year-old cottage in rural Northamptonshire.
Genre: Mystery
Interior designer Marnie Walker runs her own business from a renovated farm close by the Grand Union Canal. She also owns some beautiful cottages she rents out.
But the bucolic bliss of rural Northamptonshire is shattered by the arrival of secretive tenant Samira Khan. The mysterious Asian beauty stumps up six months’ rent and then locks herself into her canalside retreat. Marnie tries to win Samira’s trust – but gets more than she bargained for as a harrowing story unfolds.
What lies behind a series of racially-motivated attacks in nearby Northampton? Can she find Samira’s family and allay fears about so-called ‘honour killings’? How does Marnie find herself accused first of attempted murder, then murder itself? And who exactly is the victim?
Leo McNeir’s To Have and to Hold is his latest in the popular Marnie Walker crime mystery series, books that have found an appreciative audience among connoisseurs of the genre.
Praise for Leo McNeir:
‘… intelligent entertainment for the intelligent reader’ – The Citizen
‘His are the only books our reviewer has read twice, just for the fun of it’– Canal & Riverboat
Leo McNeir is a linguist and lexicographer. As director of The European Language Initiative he compiled and edited twelve dictionaries in fifteen languages, including English, since the first one was published by Cassell in 1993. He has also now completed 12 novels in the Marnie Walker series. Leo and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra McNeir, live in a 300-year-old cottage in rural Northamptonshire.
Genre: Mystery
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