Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series--now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant...

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink. Onyx Books, ISBN: 0451409361 (September, 2000), 420 p., $7.99.

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
Five years ago in Cornwall, two children disappeared from their beds and were found mysteriously drowned. When a woman is murdered nearby, the police look for a connection between the deaths. Melrose Plant, renting the children's empty home is caught up in the inquiry, and soon Richard Jury arrives to investigate

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink. Headline, ISBN: 074726841X (September, 2000), 435 p., £5.99.

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
Five years ago in Cornwall, two children disappeared from their beds and were found mysteriously drowned. When a woman is murdered nearby, the police look for a connection between the deaths.

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink. Headline, ISBN: 074727200X (December, 1999), 274 p., £16.99 (?).

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
While Richard Jury has been sent on a dead end chase by Chief Superintendent Racer, Melrose Plants heads for Cornwall to take up temporary residence in an old Cornish manor. Unfortunately, Lady Ardry boards BritRail and follows him to Bletchley House, which sits high on a rocky promontory overlooking the sea like the set of a romantic old film.

Bletchley Village is dominated by a stately home turned Hospice, thanks to the billionaire, Morris Bletchley, the American owner of a chain of fast food eateries. He is also the grandfather of two small children who died mysteriously at Bletchley House years before.

While having tea in the Woodbine Tea Room with Agatha, Plant is served by Johnny Wells, a young lad who manages a smile despite the disappearance of his beloved aunt, Chris. Seduced by the whole notion of the disappearance of aunts, Melrose calls Brian Macalvie, Commander of the Devon and Cornwall police, to find Macalvie is in the near-by Hamlet of Lamorna Cove, where the body of a woman is found in the surrounding Bluebell Wood. Macalvie and Plant repair to Lamorna's only pub, The Wink, but have barely sampled the local ale before another murder occurs, this one at the hospice.

Macalvie's past, Plant's past, and the tragic past of the Bletchleys, converge at the end with Richard Jury, who comes to set things right.

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna Wink. A Richard Jury Mystery. Viking, ISBN: 0670888702 (October, 1999), 368 p., $22.95.