Final Moments

Final Moments
Emma Page

A Kesley and Lambert novel.Chief Inspector Kelsey and Detective Lambert are investigating the murder of divorcee Venetia Franklin.Venetia’s ex-husband Ray Franklin and his new wife certainly have a motive: Ray had had to continue providing for Venetia after the divorce. But, there are other suspects: Philip Coburn who had recently broken off an affair with Venetia, and an intense young man she had met just before her death.Kelsey is following every lead on the suspects when the death of a mentally disturbed man makes him see them in a new light…

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First published in Great Britain in 1987 by Collins Crime

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Source ISBN: 9780008175825

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For the homesteaders

(and the tramps’ kitchen)

Long may they flourish

CONTENTS

Cover (#u502def3d-c8b0-571a-9538-d580724d7308)

Title Page (#uff8d68b1-8d3b-52d0-82ab-99cbafe5cfbc)

Copyright (#ulink_8da173a9-8ea6-5704-a3e9-77d9e852024d)

Dedication (#ulink_ecd5ccd6-e717-53eb-a4cd-185d619a2903)

Chapter 1 (#ulink_b70ad77a-0946-5f7f-b206-d6f7ba66900c)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_bacd4695-1d5d-51e7-a4a3-78213c20c256)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_6ec2f69b-bc72-5131-8b87-474b83168d7b)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_60526ad1-2605-5d06-831a-85486b248f38)

Chapter 5 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

By Emma Page (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1 (#ulink_dc92bf0b-5fb8-5168-9278-cdd322cad87f)

In Northwick Road, a humdrum shopping area in a workaday suburb of Cannonbridge, the shopkeepers were closing the tills and putting up the shutters. An overcast evening, unseasonably cool for the second week in May, the last stages of a wet, blustery spell that had interrupted a fine, early spring.