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A Good Rest for Some-bookcover

By: Patricia Bevin

A Good Rest for Some

Pages: 250 Ratings: 4.3
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Good Rest Care Home, “A luxury converted manor house where residents are well looked after by experienced, caring and compassionate staff. Let your loved ones stay here in safety, in superbly decorated accommodation single en suite bedrooms are decorated to a high standard and residents are encouraged to bring in their own possessions to personalise their rooms.”

A country home where residents are safe... aren't they?

Things go badly wrong when residents start losing their possessions from their rooms. And when four residents die, the deaths are attributed to natural causes. But three members of staff are not convinced, so they undertake their own investigation.

With an unconcerned manager and a mysterious doctor, the three discover that the residents are not in safe hands and are in danger of dying before their time.

Who is the person or persons responsible? Can the three staff members find out before any more untimely deaths?

Patricia Bevin was born and raised in Northamptonshire, where she still lives. She is married to Keith and has three grown up sons and two grandsons. In 1977, she qualified as a state-registered nurse. Apart from breaks to have her children, she has spent her working life working in nursing homes where she has been a registered manager for over thirty years.


She has always been an avid reader of crime novels and has now achieved her ambition of writing one.



Customer Reviews
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  • amandaabookwanderer

    This was a slow burn mystery and I found myself struggling to follow what has happened at the beginning but after the first death, I was very intrigued. While reading you are following the perspective of three staff nurses and this was something I have never experienced and know so little about but Bevin told this mystery with ease twisting and turning around this living home and giving you terminology that was necessary for the story but not so overwhelming I couldn’t keep up with the drugs and prescriptions. While I was able to discover what was going on and who was our villain I do think this would be a perfect book for someone getting into the crime thriller genre.

  • thebookstreets

    Ted and Fiona put their aunt Ness into GoodRest's home, a care home for the elderly. The place is huge and grand. But strange events have occurred in the place. Many of the items of the residents go missing as well as four sudden deaths have been reported. Initially thought to be natural deaths, but workers Moira, Sally and Matt, believe that there is more to it than that. They take on the investigation by themselves to find the murderers. The plot is interesting but the story seemed dragged. The investigation seemed logical. But the climax was boring. Overall, it is a good read.

  • Varsha Roy

    Ted and Fiona put their aunt Ness into GoodRest's home, a care home for the elderly. The place is huge and grand. But strange events have occurred in the place. Many of the items of the residents go missing as well as four sudden deaths have been reported. Initially thought to be natural deaths, but workers Moira, Sally and Matt, believe that there is more to it than that. They take on the investigation by themselves to find the murderers. The plot is interesting but the story seemed dragged. The investigation seemed logical. But the climax was boring. Overall, a good read

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