Four Silences Broken by H.L. MarsayMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the third book in a series although it can be read as a standalone, based around the North Yorkshire village of Hartwell.
Jo Ormond, the London police detective is in a relationship with the local pub landlord Jack, although she wants to return to her job in London she is also desperate to find her birth mother and thinks that the Hanley coin her mother left with her at the hospital is a clue that her mother came from the village. Dr Meera Kumar is planning her wedding to the local vet Ben. Rachel Foxton is living with her girlfriend Sarah, an archaeologist, and all appears to be well. Lady Lucy Hanley's abusive aristocratic husband Rupert is dead, and her stalker Guy (the former MP for the area) is in a psychiatric hospital awaiting trial. Lucy is in a relationship with Rob, whilst trying to bring up her son Freddie and run Hanley Hall as a business.
When Lucy discovers that the local women's shelter is losing its central government funding, an issue very close to her heart, she badgers the prospective candidates to replace Guy to take up the cause. When none of them will make it their cause she decides to run as a candidate, purely to force the others to take a stand. But her decision doesn't please her husband's former friend who is the front-runner and he starts stirring trouble about Rupert's death.
I haven't read the two previous books in this series but I didn't find that an issue. The mystery of Rupert's death is finally resolved, and more than one secret is revealed.
Recommended for fans of Julie Houston or Kate Hewitt's Holley Sisters of Thornthwaite series.
I received an ARC from the publisher Tule in return for an honest review.
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