A young woman flees in desperation when her
family decide her future...
Interior designer Marnie Walker runs her own
business from a renovated farm close by the Grand Union Canal.
She also owns some beautiful cottages she rents out.
But the
bucolic bliss of rural
Northamptonshire
is shattered by the arrival of secretive tenant Samira Khan. The mysterious Asian beauty
stumps up six months’ rent and then locks herself into her
canalside retreat.
Marnie tries to win Samira’s trust – but gets more than
she bargained for as a harrowing story unfolds.
What lies behind a series of racially-motivated attacks
in nearby Northampton? Can she find Samira’s family and allay
fears about so-called ‘honour killings’? How does Marnie find
herself accused first of attempted murder, then murder itself?
And who exactly is the victim?
Leo McNeir’s To Have and to Hold is his latest in
the popular Marnie Walker crime mystery series, books that have
found an appreciative audience among connoisseurs of the genre.
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