Theft on Thursday (Lois Meade Mystery)

by Ann Purser

Book Overview

A friend has asked working-class mother and housecleaner Lois Meade to help crack a case. It looks like the handsome new choirmaster may have been poisoned. Soon, Lois finds herself untangling a web... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425207471
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Theft On Thursday a Lois Meade Mystery

Ann Purser is a great storyteller. Her characters are believable and you care about them and can identify with them. Her stories could happen anywhere. She spends more time on character and story development than blood spills, carnage, and gore.

Delightful, however improbable

This is actually the first Lois Meade mystery that I read, and why I decided to read others. The plot was very complex, but as with the other two I've read, just what I would have expected. On the whole, I found that the plot was not quite as believable as the other two, but it is definitely intriguing. Like the others, the characters, especially those of Lois's staff at New Brooms, are marvelously well crafted. The relationships among them and among Lois's family are so engaging that one can hardly fail to find them satisfying. Certainly the on going semi-romance with Inspector Cowgill is, as always, titillating even if neither acts upon the impulse. Lois's husband, Derek Meade, while he's a little jealous and irritable lately, is definitely a dear. In general I find it as satisfying reading about the people as trying to figure out who killed whom and why. As usual the motives abound, and the things people decide to say or not say, do or not do delightfully confuse the issue. I doubt that I've read anyone short of Collin Dexter who could so thoroughly baffle me by the end of the story. Delightful story, however improbable.

terror On Tuesday

My husband and I are really enjoy reading the Lois Meade books together and trying to solve the mystery before it is revealed. We would highly recommend the daily mysteries to anyone that is interested in a bit of sleuthing fun in a decidedly English village.

lois meade mysteries

enjoyed this book. recommend this book to anyone who loves mysteries

Love this series!

I love this series. I look forward to each new book and eagerly devour it when it arrives. I do have a penchant for English murder mysteries, and I suppose these remind me of when I first discovered the genre.