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Justice Hall
by Laurie R. King
I really enjoyed this installment of the Mary Russell mysteries. At the outset, I found the deliberate accretion of detail slightly irksome, but quickly settled into the book's pacing, and its rich evocations of atmosphere. In pacing and plot, setting and denouement, the novel (I think consciously) is much closer to the mood and preoccupations of the Conan Doyle canon than the detective novel as we know it after the reshaping of Christie et al. And I thoroughly enjoyed this: family secrets, social guilt, a country house that resembles Castle Howard/Brideshead, but is (unlike its less perfect prototype) a consummate example of Palladian perfection... this is the kind of book that I will happily consume at any time, and the length is just about perfect for a lazy weekend.