Your Guide To Not Getting Murdered In A Quaint English… Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson provides readers with a guide to staying safe, making friends, and enjoying life in a small….James weaves a tale of revenge, love and death set against the backdrop of a lonely village and a mysterious lighthouse. The novel ends with Dalgliesh reflecting on the tragedy of the story, which had resulted in so many broken lives and relationships. In a fury, he had killed both Tim and Cara in an attempt to get revenge on the rector’s family. Alan had been visiting Cromeys and had discovered Tim’s affair with Ruth. The killer was Alan Kent, a young man who had been orphaned at birth as a result of the Stantons’ violent acts.

In the end, Dalgliesh and his team of officers determine that the motive of the killer was revenge. Dalgliesh discovers evidence of a possible serial killer and concludes that she was murdered as well.īack in the village, Dalgliesh learns that the Stantons had committed a series of violent acts in the past, suggesting that perhaps one of the family members was involved in the murders. Meanwhile, a young author named Cara Elroy, who had been staying at a neighboring cottage near the lighthouse, is found dead on the shore, a victim of an apparent drowning. Dalgliesh finds out that the statue of a Roman centurion located in the lighthouse holds clues to a series of events that lead up to the murder, although no one knows what it means. The rector’s daughter Ruth denies the affair, claiming that Tim was just a friend. He learns that the dead man, Tim Erickson, had a passionate relationship with the daughter of the local rector and was given access to the lighthouse, although not the key. When a young archeologist is murdered while researching an ancient Roman statue located in the village’s lighthouse, Dalgliesh is called in to investigate.

The village’s population is low, with only two families living on its grounds permanently: the Stantons and the Cromeys.

It is set in a small coastal village in England, where Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has been sent on holiday to recuperate from the death of his father. The Lighthouse is a dark, psychological novel written by P.

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