RATING: GOOD
SPOILERS!!!
After Dillon's suicide, Meredith starts wondering if the body found on the bottom of the crag is actually Dillon or maybe it is Tony. The dead man's body is unrecognisable, and the fact that Dillon was outraged by the fact that Tony wouldn't marry Kitty and did the right thing makes Meredith think that Dillon made it look as if he was committing suicide.
Meredith comes up with several theories, and in the end the piece of evident that gives him the solution is the rucksack. The one found next to the body contains things that the cook and Kitty claim weren't there in the first place. Meredith finds the original rucksack hidden under the car seat. Dillon had a rucksack with him when he jumped to his death. Meredith is right about the identity of the dead man. It is Tony. Dillon killed him, and then he drove to the place where he planned to have the picnic with Kitty and left him there, making sure to change his clothes and leave his face unrecognisable. Then when he supposedly jumped to his death, he used a new kind of parachute, and that is the way he escaped.
Dillon is eventually found and arrested. Meredith also discovers that the reason why Nesta Hedderwick cared for Tony so much was because he was her son by her first marriage. She and Tony got estranged when she remarried, and he changed his name when he was arrested for thieving. Recently they got in touch again, and that is why he was staying in Villa Sophia.
And at the end of the book Sergeant Strang and Dillys meet to say goodbye. Freddie is happy when Dillys tells her that she and her aunt will go to London in a few weeks, and then Freddie asks her to marry him.
I enjoyed the book. The part about the counterfeit money was a bit tedious, but I enjoyed the last part even though the solution was quite far-fetched.
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