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A review by kirkw1972
Hall of Mirrors by Christopher Fowler
4.0
I read the first of these books last month and really enjoyed it so I was looking forward to this one and it did not disappoint (I’ve the 13 in the middle to pick up at some point).
It mentions in the beginning that this story is going to follow on the lines of an Agatha Christie mystery with everybody stuck in an old country house while the detectives try and solve a murder. The actual murder doesn’t take place until about half way through the book. Up until then our heroes Bryant and May are trying to protect Monty Hatton-Jones the weekend before he is to be lead witness in a court trial where his former friend is accused of building flats with inferior concrete leading to deaths including children.
There are a lot of characters here but each one is uniquely crafted so you rarely confuse them. They’re all enjoyable even if most of them are only there to wangle some cash out of the super rich new owner of Tavistock Hall. There’s plenty of the usual humour. There’s some good social commentary of the time. I half worked out the main twist at the end, I was just a little way off with my thinking but there are lots of twists and turns within the story.
Each of these books work well as a stand alone and they do really bring up vivid details of the times the stories are set.
I’ve really enjoyed the two books I’ve read in this series and looking forward to working my way through the rest of them.
Free arc from netgalley and Random House
It mentions in the beginning that this story is going to follow on the lines of an Agatha Christie mystery with everybody stuck in an old country house while the detectives try and solve a murder. The actual murder doesn’t take place until about half way through the book. Up until then our heroes Bryant and May are trying to protect Monty Hatton-Jones the weekend before he is to be lead witness in a court trial where his former friend is accused of building flats with inferior concrete leading to deaths including children.
There are a lot of characters here but each one is uniquely crafted so you rarely confuse them. They’re all enjoyable even if most of them are only there to wangle some cash out of the super rich new owner of Tavistock Hall. There’s plenty of the usual humour. There’s some good social commentary of the time. I half worked out the main twist at the end, I was just a little way off with my thinking but there are lots of twists and turns within the story.
Each of these books work well as a stand alone and they do really bring up vivid details of the times the stories are set.
I’ve really enjoyed the two books I’ve read in this series and looking forward to working my way through the rest of them.
Free arc from netgalley and Random House