Cassie P Caribbean PI
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Frustrated with the progress of her application to join the St Vincent and the Grenadines detectives, Cassie Providence resigns from the police force and sets up as a private investigator. This collection features her first six cases: the disappearance of a young woman after work one Friday; the robbery of an Arts Centre; the theft of a cutlery set by two warring sisters; the murder of a businessman after a dance; the blackmail of a headmaster; a wife being abused by her van driver husband. Tenacious, funny and impulsive, Cassie P is a Caribbean woman readers will take to their heart.
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About this book
Cassie Providence wants to be a detective in St Vincent and the Grenadines, but her application to join the police detective unit stalls. Rather than wait, she leaves the force entirely and opens her own private investigation practice. The book collects her first six cases, each set against the everyday life of the Caribbean island chain.
The cases range in scale and tone. One follows the disappearance of a young woman last seen leaving work on a Friday. Another involves two sisters locked in a family dispute over a stolen cutlery set. There is a robbery at an Arts Centre, the blackmail of a school headmaster, a murder connected to a local dance, and a case of domestic abuse carried out by a van driver against his wife. Cecil Browne keeps the stories grounded in recognizable Caribbean settings and social tensions rather than building toward large-scale thriller plots.
Cassie herself is portrayed as tenacious and impulsive, quick to act and sometimes funny in the process. The collection draws its detail from ordinary island life, where personal grudges, family quarrels, and small-town proximity shape the crimes as much as any criminal motive does.
