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Bea Abbot is back - Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn’t ‘do’ murder. There’s nothing sinister about charity-worker Zander’s request for her to join him on a visit to his former boss Denzil’s widow. But Zander had exposed the financial scam Denzil was running – after which Denzil had, unexpectedly, died. Now the dead man’s widow is out for Zander’s blood, and the paperwork that proves Denzil’s guilt is missing. Denzil’s computer could provide the answers, but then another death occurs . . .
In Heley's engaging fourth Abbot Agency mystery (after 2009's False Step), Bea's young live-in female assistant, Maggie, asks the London detective to help her ex-boyfriend, Zander. Zander feels responsible for the fatal heart attack that felled Denzil, his boss at the charitable Tudor Trust, because it was he, Zander, who discovered Denzil was scamming the organization. Now Zander, who's of mixed race, has to return some personal items to Denzil's bigoted widow, Honoria. A rude, bullying woman, Honoria threatens to sue the trust for the defamation of her husband's character. Oliver, Bea's other young live-in assistant, does a little high-tech digging in quest of the truth, while Bea must try to placate elderly Lord Murchison, a member of the trust's board, who faces ruin if the truth comes out. Heley's cast of intriguing characters from every walk of life will please British cozy fans. (Apr.)
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Lidia V Ferrentino
reviewed False Pretences on November 29, 2014 False Pretences
A blast from the past kicks off Veronica Heley's fourth Abbott Agency novel, False Pretences. Zander, first seen as an unwitting victim of an art-smuggling ring in False Picture, comes to the only person he can think of for help: English widow Bea Abbott, head of the Abbott Agency, a domestic staffing temp agency in London. As Bea is tired of saying, the agency doesn't "do" murder ' except that murder has a way of finding them!
Having recovered from a near-fatal blow after False Picture, a grateful Zander has taken to charity work as the office manager at the respected, but stodgy Tudor Housing Trust. While there, Zander runs across some financial chicanery and a thoroughly racist, scheming widow of a director. Mrs. Abbott to the rescue ' along with her little agency family of computer whiz kid Oliver Ingraham and project manager Maggie. Heley adds her usual humor, suspense, and knowledge of human nature to make False Pretences another fabulous read. As in False Step, the novel released immediately before this one, readers will almost immediately identify the guilty party, but the joy comes in following Mrs. Abbott's relentless pursuit of justice for Zander and the forces of good and discovering how they will track down and expose the culprit.
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