The Tiger in the Well: A Sally Lockhart Mystery

Book three in the Sally Lockhart trilogy. This time Sally is embroiled in a mystery that hits way too close to home. The story begins as she is served with divorce papers and an order to give up custody of her little girl, Harriet, to a man she has never met. No one in a position of authority is willing to help Sally and she is, once again, forced to take matters into her own hands. As in...more

Book three in the Sally Lockhart trilogy. This time Sally is embroiled in a mystery that hits way too close to home. The story begins as she is served with divorce papers and an order to give up custody of her little girl, Harriet, to a man she has never met. No one in a position of authority is willing to help Sally and she is, once again, forced to take matters into her own hands. As in other Lockhart books, the real truth goes much deeper, and involves more people that is first apparent.   hide

What a great story teller! It is a pity if people ghettoize him as a writer of adolescent fiction. This is absorbing, intelligent, historical mystery and beats the pants of Patricia Cornwall et al.