No Mourners For Victoria

About the Book

Frances Finn is a college English instructor married to a detective lieutenant in the homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department. When she is not reading ‘great books’ for the courses she teaches, her favorite recreation is reading whodunits. This sometimes causes her to take an inordinate interest in her husband’s homicide cases, much to the distress of Marco, her husband. Imagine her delight, then, when she is invited by an old college acquaintance, who is quite wealthy, to spend a week at one of the most exclusive spas in southern California, along with some of her other friends from her college days – a sort of reunion after ten years. She envisions sitting by the pool, eating healthy food, sipping vegetable juices while reading the pillowcase full of mystery novels. It doesn’t quite turn out that way, far from it. She immediately becomes involved in the death of her hostess, and, before the week is finished, is involved in subsequent deaths. Her Miss Marple instincts cause her to be part of the investigation, in which she plays a key part in solving – including a near-death encounter with the murderer.

About the Author

Jack Lackman is a former college English instructor who turned to writing when he retired. No Mourners for Victoria is his fourth mystery and, he believes, is closer to a pure whodunit than his previous three. He is currently working on a fifth mystery about the death of a guru who formerly led a cult community on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington. Lackman was born in England, went through World War II there, and is also working on a series of novels about his experiences growing up in wartime Manchester. He has finished two of the series, Green Hill Faraway and Yids, Yoks and Yanks, and is now preparing them for publication in the near future. He came to the U.S. when he was nineteen and has lived here ever since, spending most of these years in California, where he now lives with his wife Joyce, who serves gallantly as his editor.