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Single mother Brodie Farrell runs 'Looking for Something', an agency located on England's South Downs, near the English Channel, that searches for items of interest for people unable or unwilling to do so themselves. Eric Chandos, manager of demon rocker Jared Fry, gives Brodie a list of requirements and asks her to find a home that matches these criteria. She finds the ideal location in the old coaching inn, The Diligence, which had been turned into flats a few years earlier. Jared buys the place, unseen, but when he moves in he petulantly inquires after the swimming pool that had been one of his demands.Ê After several false starts, the builders dig at what had been the foot of the garden boundary, but before they get too far down, they come across the skeleton of a young woman. Farrell's friend and lover Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon is called in on the case. Deacon starts to work on the identity of the skeleton while Chandos starts to work on Brodie. Daniel Hood, Farrell's friend, befriends Jared, to the amazement of all. Bannister has written another cozy/police procedural, the fifth in the Farrell/Hood/Deacon series. She is expert at taking disparate personalities and showing their ability to work together, and, even in some situations, becoming friends. Jared Fry could have been a stereotypical drug addicted celebrity, but Bannister gives him dimension by having Hood, the quiet, unassuming, ex-mathematics teacher, befriend him. Don't worry if you haven't read the other books in the series. The only spoiler may be the relationship between Jack and Brodie. You may want to search for the other books in the series -- ECHOES OF LIES, TRUE WITNESS, REFLECTIONS and THE DEPTHS OF SOLITUDE -- while they are all still in print. However much I enjoy reading the Brodie Farrell series, I do miss Bannister's Castlemere series of police procedurals which she has apparently abandoned to move to Dimmock and write about Farrell, Hood, and Deacon. It's been five years since we have heard from Shapiro, Donovan, and Graham. That's much too long.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, August 2005
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