No Laughing Matter: An Inspector Luke Thanet Novel

by Dorothy Simpson

Book Overview

Inspector Luke Thanet investigates the grisly death of Zak Randish, winemaker and owner of the Sturrenden Vineyard, whose jugular vein was severed when he was forced through a window pane. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684196263
• ISBN13: 9780684196268
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Murder is not Funny

NO LAUGHING MATTER by award winning, English writer Dorothy Simpson draws readers into the life of Inspector Luke Thanet. Vineyards is the setting of this complex "who-done-it" when Insp. Thanet and his sergeant, Mike Lineham are summoned to the savaged laboratory of Zak Randish, a master wine-maker whose personal relations with family and co-workers is anything, but exemplary. Randish married his wife for status and her acres, but never stopped his explorations of any woman who came into his orbit. The number of suspects increases with each personal they encounter. In true Simpson fashions the twists and turns of the plot keeps the reader guessing until the final pages. Nash Black, author of Indie finalists, WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and HAINTS.