Thirteen Fourteen Maids A-Courting (Grasshopper Lawns #7)

The seventh book in this whodunit series heads off for the sun

The main maid courting in this book is Kirsty, Edge’s lovely young niece, who is taking a brief holiday break from her job with Police Scotland to be wooed in the romantic surroundings of Tenerife.

Unluckily for Kirsty the Grasshopper Lawns books are whodunits, not love stories, so it will be no surprise to followers of the series that Drew vanishes, leaving her alone in the Canaries, unable to speak a word of Spanish and finding little professional cooperation being offered by the multiple policing services on the island.

Her aunt Edge is the automatic person to call, and not only because they are close. Edge and her friends Donald, Vivian and William have established quite a track record for solving mysteries in the last year or so, and are quick to the rescue. However, matters become even more complicated. In fact, downright sinister. Was Drew the real target, or just the bait?

This sunny whodunit is the seventh in the series and as light-hearted and studded with clues and red herrings as the earlier ones. The armchair detective is whisked along to the exotic and beautiful island of Tenerife, far from the green and lovely Scottish countryside, to solve the case before the friends do.