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A review by obsidian_blue
A Bird In The Hand by Ann Cleeves
4.0
Drags here and there still solid
There's a lot about birds so be prepared for that. I enjoyed reading about George and Molly. Definitely will read book #2.
Full review:
So this was interesting. This is definitely Cleeves getting her feet wet with mysteries. Some of the descriptions are overly long and you start to get bored a bit here and there because the flow of the book sometimes just starts and stops. But I love the idea of a husband/wife mystery team and I thought how Cleeves wrote George and Molly was interesting.
"A Bird in The Hand" follows retired George Palmer-Jones. George used to work for the Home Office (doing very decidedly mysterious things) but feels a bit bored these days. Think an elderly Sherlock Holmes that's married. His wife, Molly, is also retired from social work and feels a bit restless. When George is called upon to solve the mystery of a birder named Tom French he feels himself interested despite himself. George is a birder and knows the ins and outs of it and some of the same people that Tom knew. It seems easy enough for him to make inquiries.
I loved George and Molly together. She's his Watson in a way, much better with people than George is. And though we hear mention of the two's children and grandchild, they are never seen. Instead George and Molly are able to just be and investigate with no issues. I liked their takes on the people they meet and the mysteries they unravel.
As I said above, the flow stopped and started, and there's so much talking about birds that after a while my brain started to tune it out.
The other characters in the book were interesting, Tom French reminded me of another character in another series that Cleeves wrote, that honestly ended up dead for almost the same reason it seems.
The ending was interesting and I didn't guess the murderer at all.
There's a lot about birds so be prepared for that. I enjoyed reading about George and Molly. Definitely will read book #2.
Full review:
So this was interesting. This is definitely Cleeves getting her feet wet with mysteries. Some of the descriptions are overly long and you start to get bored a bit here and there because the flow of the book sometimes just starts and stops. But I love the idea of a husband/wife mystery team and I thought how Cleeves wrote George and Molly was interesting.
"A Bird in The Hand" follows retired George Palmer-Jones. George used to work for the Home Office (doing very decidedly mysterious things) but feels a bit bored these days. Think an elderly Sherlock Holmes that's married. His wife, Molly, is also retired from social work and feels a bit restless. When George is called upon to solve the mystery of a birder named Tom French he feels himself interested despite himself. George is a birder and knows the ins and outs of it and some of the same people that Tom knew. It seems easy enough for him to make inquiries.
I loved George and Molly together. She's his Watson in a way, much better with people than George is. And though we hear mention of the two's children and grandchild, they are never seen. Instead George and Molly are able to just be and investigate with no issues. I liked their takes on the people they meet and the mysteries they unravel.
As I said above, the flow stopped and started, and there's so much talking about birds that after a while my brain started to tune it out.
The other characters in the book were interesting, Tom French reminded me of another character in another series that Cleeves wrote, that honestly ended up dead for almost the same reason it seems.
The ending was interesting and I didn't guess the murderer at all.