Legacy
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley May 20, 2025
Author Jim Chambers
Distributor: Troubador Publishing
ISBN: 9781836282167
Publisher: Troubadour Publishing
Release Date: 28 April 2025
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The legacies left to family members to resolve comes under the eye of Jim Chambers in his fourth book, Legacy, the story of a family torn into combative elements through the unreasonable request of a dying man; their father Terrene Gerald Sinclair.
When Terrence is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he hands over the reins of Belle Hospitality to his son Julian, the only one of his three children with the business experience to be able to turn the ailing business around. The one condition is that the flagship pub, The Belle must remain in the family for all times.
Julian is disliked by his siblings Emma and Luke as well as his wife Lotte, as they see him as cold, hard, and distant. They are all shareholders in the Company and no matter what he and his Financial Director Thomas tell them about the parlous state of the Company, they refuse to agree to sell.
Julian also has his own business in France which is doing well, but the long reaching tentacles of COVID are beginning to make inroads there, or so it seems as there are anomalies showing up in the bookkeeping, which have been discovered up by Cassandra, a woman who has a tragic past; a woman who keeps her life very private.
When the police become interested in a cold case missing person who was once involved with the running of The Belle, along with several other pubs owned by the Company, Julian comes under the spotlight as having history with the missing man Scott Morrison.
This highlights the disintegration of his own marriage, the tragedy of his family and the fledgling feelings he is developing for Cassandra, on their quiet, reclusive weekends in France.
As the police dig deeper, they discover there is far more to Scott Morrison than just a petty crook and thug but how this involves the Sinclair family takes some time and eventually a little good luck to discover.
Within the Police department the reason behind the interest in the cold case is not as it would seem either, which leaves Legacy poised at the precipice of what surely must be book 2 as the story reaches an interesting and heartfelt conclusion or pause………