The Lost Girls of Devon by Barbara O’Neal EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Barbara O’Neal
- Genre: Friendship Fiction, International Mystery & Crime
- Publish Date: 14 July 2020
- Size: 2 MB
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Lillian
Something was going on in the village.
Not that anyone would believe her. They would tut-tut and pat her on
the head and compliment the imagination that had given her more than a
hundred mystery stories over the past fifty years, but once you passed eighty,
no one believed you had a single thought worth listening to.
But she knew something was going on.
On the nights when she couldn’t sleep, which was more often than not,
as her old bones complained and the memories of nearly nine decades
paraded themselves through her imagination, Lillian Fairchild made her way
to the study she had created in the tower room many years before. In the dark,
ensconced in the window seat her granddaughter Zoe had so loved, she
sipped a soothing cup of tea and watched the sea.
One of the reasons she’d
refused to leave the rambling old house, despite the damp and the cold, was
this view of the sea. The manor perched on a cliff overlooking the village and
offered a full, unobstructed view of the coastline for miles and miles.
Tonight the waxing moon had not reached its zenith, but the light was
nonetheless bright and clear, illuminating the fishing boats and yachts
anchored for the night just offshore. It was the moonlight that revealed a
small sailboat making its silent way toward a pair of yachts, shadows on the
sea.
So many strangers these days, Lillian thought, taking a sip of tea. In her
youth, tourists had been few and mostly hailed from other parts of England,
or perhaps France, and the odd loud American. Now when she made her
rounds of the village, there were as many tourists as locals, and they were a
well-heeled lot, by the look of them. Men who golfed and brought their
expensive sailboats to harbor, women in oversize sunglasses shopping the art
stalls and antique shops, many of them speaking some language other than
English.
She missed the days when she knew everyone.
Of course, she still knew the locals. It was her business to stay abreast
of the village gossip to lend verisimilitude to her long-running series about
Lady Dawood and her good friend Flora, a village baker, who solved crimes
around the countryside. The pair of mild-mannered, middle-aged widows had
made their creator most comfortable.
There’s something going on in the village, she thought, and she watched
the shadow boat slide stealthily out to the dark sea.
Suddenly she saw the scene through Lady Dawood’s eyes, viewing it as
if from the perch of her castle tower.
Something is amiss in the village.
Lillian stood and made her way to the computer. An idea was a terrible
thing to waste.
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