Dust by Martha Grimes

DUST @ THE ZETTER HOTEL



When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not sure what's more perplexing: the circumstances of the fellow's death, the conflicting stories of the man's past, or the motivations of the case's chief inspecting officer, the beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar. What Jury is sure of is that he's in over his head, both with the inscrutable and challenging Aguilar and the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic Billy Maples, last seen in a club called Dust.



A web of clues draws Jury to London's trendy Clerkenwell galleries, clubs and THE ZETTER HOTEL, to the dark stories behind Maples's family, and to the Sussex town of Rye, where Billy had temporarily cared for Lamb House, the charming home where Henry James composed his three masterworks...a place with secrets of his own. With Melrose Plant's investigating Lamb House and with Aguilar's interceding, Scotland Yard's finest, and now infamous, Richard Jury, will need every bit of his intelligence and quiet charm to close in on a mysterious young cousin of Maples's, and crack the case.

Clerkenwell Hotel named greenest place to stay

Clerkenwell hotel named greenest place to stay.

Evening Standard 16.04.08

The chic London Zetter hotel has been named as one of the most environmentally friendly places to stay in the UK.

The Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell features in a new guide for green travellers, Ecoescape

The boutique hotel is in a converted Victorian warehouse and scored plus points for being built with sustainable timbers and finished with eco-friendly paints. The Zetter, which opened in 2004, does not use mains water, instead pumping its supply from its own borehole. Water is also filtered and bottled for the hotel's restaurant.

General manager Justin Pinchbeck said: "The Zetter is a hotel with an environmental conscience. Our energy efficient principles are important to us."