Book Review: Ghost Walk

Reviewed By: Lynn Harnett

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Marianne MacDonald
Class/Genre:   Mystery
Series: Dido Hoare # 2
St. Martin’s , Dec. 1998

In her second appearance, antiquarian bookstore owner, widow, and single mother Dido Hoare distracts herself from a London heat wave by indulging her curiosity over the death of a learned but possibly homeless customer, Tom Ashe.

Ashe piques this curiosity when he disappears from the hospital Dido has taken him to after finding him unconscious on her doorstep. Reappearing to give Dido an old, possibly valuable necklace Ashe is then found dead, having appointed Dido executor of his (surprisingly substantial) estate.

Dido doubts the official verdict of natural causes and her suspicions are soon buttressed by the stonewalling involvement of intelligence services – and the wartime memories of her father who once knew the man. Dido is a resourceful heroine who encounters more danger than she bargained for but remains undaunted. Macdonald writes with warmth, humor and energy.

Lynn Harnett

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