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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
Old fashioned detective story -- but the detective is not the main character. It's listed as an Inspector Wexford mystery, but he isn't in the forefront of the action or the resolution. Not a complaint, just an observation. There were a few too many coincidences to suit me, but it was still good story.
I'm sure I read all the Wexford mysteries years ago, but I don't remember this one. Partly, it isn't really a Wexford mystery. Not even the way some of the others aren't, with Mike Burden, his junior colleague, taking pride of place, and the Wexford family who play such major roles in later books merely mentioned or absent altogether.
No, it turns out that the main investigator in this book is a soul-troubled clergyman in the Church of England whose love for his son and his ingrained suspicion that sin is an inherited trait are at war, and who has to prove that his son's fiancee is NOT the daughter of a murderer before he can permit them to marry.
A well-written book, with engaging characters and compelling moral dilemmas...but thank God the issues raised in this book aren't live issues for hardly anyone anymore!
No, it turns out that the main investigator in this book is a soul-troubled clergyman in the Church of England whose love for his son and his ingrained suspicion that sin is an inherited trait are at war, and who has to prove that his son's fiancee is NOT the daughter of a murderer before he can permit them to marry.
A well-written book, with engaging characters and compelling moral dilemmas...but thank God the issues raised in this book aren't live issues for hardly anyone anymore!
Well-written, but the plot didn't really grab me. I also found the secondary romance trite and unappealing.
Slightly disappointed with this one. Not nearly enough Wexford.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
I swear this book shares its premise with an Agatha Christie: can the child of a murderer escape becoming a violent person themselves?
This was over the top England, with the class anxiety, bitchy waiters, fussy people, bad food.
Ok mystery.
This was over the top England, with the class anxiety, bitchy waiters, fussy people, bad food.
Ok mystery.
This is the second in the Wexford series, and a good follow up even though Wexford is certainly not the featured character, the mystery isn't exactly the murder, and the murder happened about fifteen years prior to the novel's start. But it worked nonetheless and I'm excited to start listening to the third book tomorrow.
Now I have to decide between reading the rest as audio, so I get to hear the accents, or on paper, so I can go faster. Hmmm.
Lost interest at 33%, unfortunately.
It was competing with another book I had started in parallel....all of this symptomatic of a book hangover from a previous read.
It was competing with another book I had started in parallel....all of this symptomatic of a book hangover from a previous read.