{"id":175,"date":"2017-04-12T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/?p=175"},"modified":"2017-04-11T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:18:39","slug":"death-cuckoo-wendy-percival-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/2017\/04\/12\/death-cuckoo-wendy-percival-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH OF A CUCKOO by Wendy Percival #review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cuckoo\"<\/a>Death of a Cuckoo<\/h1>\n

by<\/h1>\n

Wendy Percival<\/h1>\n

\"Cuckoo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Genre: <\/strong>Cosy Mystery<\/p>\n

Series: <\/strong>An Esme Quentin Short Read<\/p>\n

Release Date: <\/strong>6 March 2017<\/p>\n

Publisher: <\/strong>sBooks<\/p>\n

A letter. A photograph. A devastating truth.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Gina Vincent receives a letter of condolence from a stranger following her mother\u2019s death, a photograph slipped inside reveals a disturbing truth \u2013 everything she\u2019s ever known is based on a lie. Shocked and disorientated, she engages genealogy detective Esme Quentin to help search for answers.<\/p>\n

The trail leads to an isolated and abandoned property on the edge of Exmoor, once the home of a strict Victorian institution called The House of Mercy and its enigmatic founder, whose influence seems to linger still in the fabric of the derelict building.<\/p>\n

As they dig deeper, Esme realises that the house itself hides a dark and chilling secret, one which must be exposed to unravel the mystery behind Gina\u2019s past.<\/p>\n

But someone is intent on keeping the secret hidden. Whatever it takes.<\/p>\n

EXTRACT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

I ran down the steps and squeezed my way down the slim passage. In the recess was a narrow door but it didn\u2019t match the faded, peeling paint of the remainder of the house\u2019s decoration. It was brighter, as though it had been protected from the elements. As I stepped closer, I realised that\u2019s exactly what had happened. Under my feet were pieces of broken planking. Until very recently, this doorway had been covered by a decorative panel and disguised. So who had uncovered it? It couldn\u2019t have been there at the viewing.<\/p>\n

LINKS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Buy link:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/amzn.to\/2nzijPK<\/a><\/p>\n

Goodreads link:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/bit.ly\/2nieCuW<\/a><\/p>\n

My Review<\/h1>\n

I found this book an easy read. I finished in one sitting. I loved Esme. She reminds me of a young Miss Marple, determined to get to the bottom of any mystery no matter how big or how small.<\/p>\n

Wendy’s writing is strong and her descriptive narrative of the old Victorian institution, I felt like I was there along with her characters.<\/p>\n

I’ll definitely be looking for more books by this author.<\/p>\n

ABOUT WENDY PERCIVAL<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cuckoo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Wendy Percival was born in the West Midlands and brought up in the Worcestershire countryside. After training as a primary school teacher she moved to North Devon in 1980 to take up her first teaching post and remained in teaching for 20 years.<\/p>\n

An impulse buy of Writing Magazine<\/em> inspired her to start writing seriously. She won Writing Magazine\u2019s Summer Ghost Story competition in 2002 and had a short story published in The People\u2019s Friend<\/em> before focusing on full-length fiction.<\/p>\n

The time honoured \u2018box of old documents in the attic\u2019 stirred her interest in genealogy and became the inspiration for the Esme Quentin mystery novels Blood-Tied<\/em> and The Indelible Stain<\/em>. She is currently working on the third in the series, where the clandestine past of the Second World War provides the secret world into which Esme must delve to uncover the truth.<\/p>\n

When she\u2019s not writing fiction, Wendy conducts her own family history research, sharing her finds on her blog, www.familyhistorysecrets.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wendy lives in a Devon thatched cottage beside a 13th-century church with her husband and a particularly talkative cat.<\/p>\n

You can find more on her website www.wendypercival.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facebook: <\/strong>http:\/\/bit.ly\/2mJj8TC<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter: <\/strong>https:\/\/twitter.com\/wendy_percival<\/a><\/p>\n

Goodreads Author Page: <\/strong>http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lhecIA<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog: <\/strong>http:\/\/familyhistorysecrets.blogspot.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>http:\/\/www.wendypercival.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> http:\/\/sbooks.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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Death of a Cuckoo by Wendy Percival Genre: Cosy Mystery Series: An Esme Quentin Short Read Release Date: 6 March 2017 Publisher: sBooks A letter. A photograph. A devastating truth. When Gina Vincent receives a letter of condolence from a stranger following her mother\u2019s death, a photograph slipped inside reveals a disturbing truth \u2013 everything … Continue reading DEATH OF A CUCKOO by Wendy Percival #review<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,112,114,113,115],"tags":[8,9,116],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79kK0-2P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}