It?s high summer, and high comedy too, when Molly drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays?
?She is saddled with her randy old tease of a father, a lawyer husband suspected of feeble infidelity and three daughters?With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane tangle of clues? Mail on Sunday
Author description
John Mortimer is a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets) featuring aspiring Conservative MP, Leslie Titmuss. Sir John received a knighthood in 1998 for his services to the arts.
