My Life is Done - Antony Maitland, Bk 24 Author:Sara Woods A prominent politician, Graham Chadwick, wants to consult Antony Maitland. Chadwick has great power over the granting of planning permission for major developments but is himself a conservationist. In his own constituency such a development hangs in the balance: a way has been found to blackmail him on the grounds that that he is trying to force... more » the development through to benefit his crippled sister-in-law who owns land there.
In effect he wants Maitland to work as a private detective -- to find who is the blackmailer.
Maitland and his wife Jenny travel north to Chadwick’s Northumbrian constituency. Maitland soon discovers he is working with a ‘closed circle’ of suspects. A murder dramatically changes the nature of the case, and casts doubt even on Chadwick’s innocence. Another murder follows before Maitland can begin to see a pattern -- or the identity of the murderer.« less