Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Drawing the Line
    Unavailable
    Drawing the Line
    Unavailable
    Drawing the Line
    Ebook338 pages3 hours

    Drawing the Line

    By Judith Cutler

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Lina Townend, the orphaned natural daughter of somebody, somewhere, has been in care all her life. For the first time, at nineteen, she's pretty happy, living with kind-hearted antique dealer Griff, who combines the roles of grandfather and employer. But there is still something missing: she wants to find her real family, despite Griff's fears that she may uncover things she'd rather not know. When Lina comes across a page from a rare sixteenth century book, "Nature Rerum", which she remembers from early childhood, she snaps up the chance to buy it. She has a vivid memory of being taken as a child to a stately home, where a man she believes must have been her father gave her this book to keep her quiet. If she can locate the book, maybe she can find her father. However, in the weeks that follow, a series of violent burglaries and attacks make Lina realise that what she found might have been more than just a link to her father. Undeterred, she carries on in her dangerous search, but will it lead her to happiness, or bitter disappointment?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateMay 21, 2015
    ISBN9780749016593
    Unavailable
    Drawing the Line
    Author

    Judith Cutler

    A former secretary of the Crime Writers' Association, Judith Cutler has taught Creative Writing at universities and colleges for over thirty years and has run occasional courses elsewhere (from a maximum-security prison to an idyllic Greek island). She is the author of more than forty novels.

    Read more from Judith Cutler

    Related to Drawing the Line

    Related ebooks

    Crime Thriller For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Charm Of The COTSWOLDS

      Jul 7, 2023

      The Charm Of The COTSWOLDS
      6 min read

    • Article

      Wise old Mrs Merrow

      Jul 27, 2020

      Littlesea was everything the description said: a white stone cottage with beams and higgledy-piggledy walls and steps away from a tiny quay in a private bay. It would have been the perfect spot for honeymooners had it not had just the one single bed

      8 min read

    • Article

      London Life

      Jun 2, 2021

      London Life
      3 min read

    • Article

      Time For Tea

      Jan 31, 2024

      Time For Tea
      9 min read

    • Article

      G’day – And Goodbye

      Aug 25, 2021

      G’day – And Goodbye
      4 min read

    • Article

      Meet Sam.

      Dec 1, 2022

      Meet Sam.
      10 min read

    • Article

      Hunting Heroines

      Dec 31, 2020

      Hunting Heroines
      5 min read

    • Article

      Landmark And Legacy

      Aug 4, 2021

      Landmark And Legacy
      5 min read

    • Article

      HEAVEN In The Hebrides

      Jun 17, 2022

      HEAVEN In The Hebrides
      5 min read

    • Article

      My Natural Health Service

      Aug 19, 2021

      My Natural Health Service
      3 min read

    • Article

      Mediterranean Mirage

      Aug 13, 2021

      Mediterranean Mirage
      1 min read

    • Article

      Rebecca

      Aug 18, 2021

      Rebecca
      3 min read

    • Article

      Single Bells

      Dec 14, 2022

      Single Bells
      3 min read

    • Article

      Highland FLING

      Nov 19, 2020

      Highland FLING
      7 min read

    • Article

      Our 20-year LOVE STORY

      Sep 3, 2020

      Our 20-year LOVE STORY
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Books of Summer

      May 20, 2023

      The Books of Summer
      2 min read

    • Article

      A nation CELEBRATES

      Mar 11, 2022

      A nation CELEBRATES
      4 min read

    • Article

      Leavenworth Washington

      Nov 27, 2021

      Leavenworth Washington
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Ups And Downs Of Boris Johnson

      Jul 27, 2022

      Someone who should know – someone who was once very senior at Number Ten – told me, more than two years ago, that Boris Johnson’s premiership was bound to end in tears. ‘Why’s that?’ I asked. Given that Boris had just secured a thumping big majority

      3 min read

    • Article

      London’s Frost Fairs

      Nov 6, 2020

      London’s Frost Fairs
      2 min read

    • Article

      Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

      Nov 17, 2021

      Faber £20 The artists Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power made monotypes in the early 1930s when no one in Britain was interested in the genre. Very few of their daring experiments survive, though there is a fine example by Power in the British Museum, La

      3 min read

    • Article

      The PROMISE

      Aug 18, 2021

      The PROMISE
      9 min read

    Reviews for Drawing the Line

    4/5

    13 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Lina is an orphan, informally apprenticed to antique dealer Griff, however her past is starting to catch up with her, what will she do when she finds her father and who's attacking them and what do they want. A slightly above par mystery.
    • 5/5
      First Line: QUALITY ANTIQUES FAIR.Happiness finally finds Lina Townend at the ripe old age of nineteen. After being in foster care all her life, she's living with kind-hearted old antiques dealer Griff and becoming a very deft hand at restoring old china. There's only one thing missing: no matter the consequences, Lina wants to find her real father.When Lina comes across a page from a very rare old book that she remembers from her early childhood, she buys it. Her memory of the book and of the room she was in is so vivid that she's convinced that, if she can find the book, she'll find her father. However, what she seems to have done is stir up a hornet's nest of violent burglaries and attacks. Something tells Lina that she's found more than a link to her father, and she refuses to stop searching until she's found all the answers.I firmly believe that each reader has a distinct interior voice with its own cadence and phraseology. If we're very lucky, we find authors who tap into this so that reading their books becomes an effortless extension of our thoughts.I have been lucky because author Judith Cutler has tapped into my own interior voice so that, in reading one of her books, my thoughts are the main character's thoughts; my voice the main character's voice-- a completely natural process that doesn't happen nearly as often as I'd like.I'm always on the look-out for books by Cutler, so when the first book in the Lina Townend mystery series fell into my hands, I jumped at the chance to read it, especially since Lina is in the antiques business.It's easy to empathize with Lina; she's so bright and self-effacing. Cutler has a knack for drawing sympathetic characters from fractured backgrounds who have personal demons they must overcome. After going through the revolving door of foster homes so many times she's lost count, it is wonderful to see how love and kindness make this young woman blossom.Combine marvelous characterization with a plot full of twists and turns, and Drawing the Line becomes a true pleasure to read. Lina may be young, she may be troubled, she may be naive, but you can't help but cheer on someone who's so determined to succeed: "Hang on: I was not about to be a victim. I was going to think my way through this." You also can't help but become a bit misty-eyed when someone like Lina bursts into tears and says, "It's just so rare...to meet someone who is what he says he is and does what he promises."I'm hoping you'll make Lina's acquaintance and become as big a fan of Judith Cutler as I am. Go on. You know you want to!