Motive: Heartache, a Hattie and Floyd mystery

By Phyllis F. Morris

Hattie and Floyd Thompson, an American couple in Cardiff, Wales on personal business, volunteer to help the Manager of the quiet B&B where they are staying when the owner is called away to care for her ailing mother. Their job should be easy: the only other guests--Winifred Ingels, a noted patroness of the arts; Miss Mathews, a retired librarian; and Frank Smith, an antique dealer--regularly stay at The Friends during the low season and their needs are known. Marking an end to this low-season calm, two giddy, twice-married and divorced women planning to co-author a romance arrive. Then an adventurous American free-lance journalist appears. Finally, a guest checks in as W. C. Gupta, a man Floyd knew as Wazir in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and hoped never to see again; whatever he calls himself, whoever he is, his presence means trouble. The first death at The Friends is a shock--or is it? The secrets that have been buried, the relationships hidden, the years of longing and hatred suppressed are even more shocking when they are uncovered and can only result in further tragedy.Movtive: Heartache is a spell-binder to the end, and the ending leads to . . .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1480235474
• ISBN13: 9781480235472
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"