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Sergeant Priscilla Booth and genealogist Mort Sinclair, who have become lovers since we last met them in KISSING COUSINS have come to England to attend the funeral of Priscilla's cousin, Sylvia. Mort is planning on staying in England to do some research at Oxford, while Priscilla plans on returning to the US after a week spent touring Europe. But Sylvia, in her will, has left Priscilla a holiday cottage in Cornwall, with the proviso that she spend 30 days in residence, so she and Mort move in. There is something strange about the will. Priscilla and Sylvia haven't been very close. They were roommates in college but had lost touch with each other since. Why was Priscilla given the cottage and all its contents. Things get even stranger when the writer in residence in the flat above the one Booth and Sinclair are inhabiting, goes missing and Dr, Cawthorne executor of the will, tries to force them out before the end of the month has elapsed. They find out that an expensive necklace that should have been in the house has gone missing and they think that her husband is looking for it. Priscilla remembers that she and Sylvia used to hide notes to each other and she searches the flat for the messages Sylvia must have left for her. The local police finally decide that Sylvia must have been murdered but they really don't like the idea of an American police Sergeant meddling in their case. Everything gets very complicated, as the couple learn about the local relationships, and even more complicated when the cast and crew filming a television series at the local manor house in factored in. Stratton has spend some time in England and writes a good British cozy, even using British spelling and syntax. If the characters are a little thin, they are engaging, and the view of Cornwall is spectacular. It would be fun to find out what happens to these two, but as far as I know, there isn't another Sinclair-Booth book in the pipeline. But it is worth while to seek out KISSING COUSINS and CORNISH CONUNDRUM.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, February 2003
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