Intent: A Detective Inspector Tessa Grantley Mystery
“Why go on? Let’s end with saying my son, Jonathan Hanay, switched schools mid-term. The very next week, I later learned, his former school was informed that Exacto Maintenance Services, PLC had gone into administration or something and would no longer be able to provide cleaning services of any kind, free or not. Shocking, perhaps. Or not. Or hell yes.”
-Excerpt from Chapter Two
“Although modest both in width and length, Praed Street, W. 2, holds an outsized importance to London. For it is at once an entry and departure point, a place where people come and go, enter the city and leave it. Paddington Station, a 19th-Century cream confection, looms large on the street’s north side.Up the street to the east, St. Mary’s Hospital welcomes newborns to life and assists the aged or ailing to what may or may not be a better place.”
SYNOPSIS
Son Jonathan is growing. Tessa has a serious boyfriend, Tamir Hussein. Her husband, Alec Hanay, gone for over seven years, has been declared dead. Tessa and DI Peter Lazarus investigate the murder of a woman near Paddington Station. Quickly, they find a suspect but are unable to establish a connection between the suspect and victim. With no witnesses, they need more to charge the man. They need intent.
Tessa uncovers the stupefying answers needed to solve the killing. Then, suddenly, she finds that husband Alec is alive and living in the south of France. Again, she finds the truth. Again, all too aware of the fallibility of justice, she takes matters in her own hands.