“[Wright] is a peerless storyteller whose… tale is a masterpiece of timing and pacing.”
“L.R. Wright [is] in a league with P.D. James and the best (and only the best) of Ruth Rendell.” The London Free Press
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Set like its predecessors in a picturesque coastal town near Vancouver, Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg’s fourth outing clearly shows why L.R. Wright mysteries have been hailed as “every bit as good as the novels of Ruth Rendell and P D. James” (People).
Fall from Grace tells what happens when Alberg takes his on-again/off-again Significant Other, town librarian Cassandra Mitchell, on a boat trip to a sun-drenched cove on the Pacific coast only to have a body turn up at the foot of a cliff on the beach. In seeking the victim’s identity, and that of his killer, Alberg must sift through a bewildering variety of leads. And he must contend, as well, with the demands of his college-age daughter working as an intern on the local paper, whose ideals of justice (for animals as well as humans) are sometimes hard to live up to.
The proprietor of a roadside zoo, his beautiful and dissatisfied wife, a nervous young husband trying to prove himself, a strange old woman who lives alone with a houseful of cats all come under Alberg’s scrutiny until their parts in the mystery begin to emerge …. and then a violent confrontation makes everything clear.