The Tinder Box (novella)

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The Tinder Box
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First edition (Dutch)
Author Minette Walters
Original titleDe Tondeldoos
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language Dutch, later English
Genre crime / mystery
PublisherDe Boekerij (Netherlands)
Macmillan Publishers (UK)
Publication date
1999 (Netherlands), 31 July 2004 (Britain)
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback) & Audio CD
Pages124 pp (hardback)
ISBN 1-4050-4855-7
OCLC 59272902

The Tinder Box (1999) is a crime novel la by English writer Minette Walters. First published in Dutch as part of their annual "BookWeek" scheme, the story wasn't available in English until 2004.

Synopsis

Following the savage murders of Lavinia Fanshaw and her personal nurse, Dorothy Jenkins, in the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordian is arrested for the crime, stirring up violent racial hatred from the other residents against his family. Friend and neighbour Siobhan Lavenham suspects that Patrick was the victim of an already prejudiced investigation, and defies her community so she can prove him innocent. However, after learning of some terrible secret's from the O'Riordian's past, she begins to question her loyalties.


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