British Mystery novelist Pat Herbert releases new book entitled "So Long at the Fair"
Book 5 in Paltoquet series.
- (1888PressRelease) May 25, 2014 - About the Book:
'Oh dear, what can the matter be ....'
The fifth novel in the Reverend Paltoquet series focuses on a miscarriage of justice back in the 1890s and how it shaped lives and events that followed.
Just how can a woman keep throwing herself off the top of the big wheel at a South London fair? Two little girls witness a beautiful woman doing just that when they visit the fair back in the 1890s. In the late 1950s she is still falling off the wheel and Dr Robbie MacTavish is a witness, as is a small boy, Ronnie Fisher, the great nephew of the Reverend Bernard Paltoquet's housekeeper, Mrs Harper (known affectionately as 'Mrs Aitch').
Albert Williams, the plumber who supplies the vicarage with a much needed new boiler, turns out to be the grandson of Olivia Ayrton-Williams, a woman who was killed when she was pushed off the big wheel in 1895. Hal Grant, Albert's rival for the affections of the lovely Bonita Murray, is the grandson of the man wrongly convicted and hung for Olivia's murder.
Bernard and Robbie set about trying to piece together the events of over half a century ago, with the help of the redoubtable Chief Inspector Neverholme. Just who is the woman who keeps falling off the big wheel? It soon becomes clear she was the victim of a vicious murder and that her purpose is to clear the name of the man who was wrongfully hanged for it.
Titles in the Reverend Paltoquet Mystery Series are:
The Bockhampton Road Murders
Haunted Christmas
The Possession of November Jones
The Witches of Wandsworth
So Long at the Fair
The Man Who Was Death
The Dark Side of the Mirror
About the Author:
Pat Herbert lives in London, England. She worked as a typist for a publishing company, based in Blackfriars, then trained to become a Chartered Librarian before working for British Gypsum in London's West End. She was always interested in returning to publishing and took on the job of PA to the Managing Director of Thomson Books, which owned publishers including Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph and Sphere at the time, before they were taken over by Penguin.
Since then, Pat worked in recruitment and she is currently working part-time for a private cardiac clinic, and writes during her spare time (with her boss's permission, of course). She is now writing the next suspenseful novel in the Paltoquet mystery series which is entitled "Sleeping With the Dead".
Pat loves reading modern crime novels mainly (Peter James, Peter Robinson, Ruth Rendell) and she has an extensive film library. She was brought up in a cinema as her mother was an usherette, and many of her Paltoquet books lend themselves to the big screen.
SO LONG AT THE FAIR can be ordered on Amazon UK at:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Long-Fair-Reverend-Paltoquet/dp/149734526X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400918610&sr=8-1&keywords=so+long+at+the+fair+pat+herbert
Press/media Contact Details:
Literary Agent:
Darin Jewell, Managing Director, The Inspira Group Literary Agency, 5 Bradley Road, Enfield, England EN3 6ES
Tel. 0208 292 5163
E-mail: darin ( @ ) theinspiragroup dot com
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