A review by michelleful
A Drink of Deadly Wine by Kate Charles

4.0

I'm not sure why I enjoy ecclesiastical mysteries so much, but I really do. This was just the ticket, though a bit on the overly gentle side for me,

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especially towards the end when it turns out the murder is a suicide and the blackmailer didn't mean it!

The main attraction was the characters - some of them lovely, some of them odious - and their rich web of relationships within a high Anglican/Anglo-Catholic parish. I have to say I wish Gabriel got more of a comeuppance especially after it turned out that he

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basically trapped his wife into marriage

. I will be reading more of this series.