Utterly Reclaimed - Pauline Manders

Sleepy Suffolk wakes up to the news that a man has been found hanging in a reclamation yard near Bury St Edmunds. Within days, a bronze statue is stolen, and a broken automaton with a singing bird mechanism arouses suspicion. Can there be a connection? It becomes increasingly clear that there is, as the action quickly spreads from Thorpe Morieux through to Lavenham and Woodbridge. Chrissie, Nick and Matt, friends since a carpentry course at Stowmarket's Utterly Academy, find themselves caught up with a network dealing in stolen metal and scrap. Add in a darkly brooding young man, a rundown pizza delivery service, a spooky, remote car wrecking yard and you have another witty and fast paced narrative from Pauline Manders. Her quirky main characters, previously encountered in Utterly Explosive, Utterly Fuelled & Utterly Rafted, fly by the seat of their pants through a plot filled with twists, deceit and bluff as the stakes are raised.