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A review by catevari
Dead and Buried by Barbara Hambly
4.0
I'm a huge fan of the Benjamin January series (truthfully, I'm a fan of all Hambly's works), so when I heard that a British publisher was picking up the series, I was overjoyed. Hambly is one of the very few writers I will buy in hardback, no questions asked, and I sped through Dead & Buried in about a day and a half.
I enjoy Hambly's hand with a mystery; the clues are there to be followed, if embedded and hidden behind screens of historical and informational persiflage and the solving of the case never feels like it was pulled out of thin air. Too, I really enjoy the obvious research and thought she puts into her world and character building in a way that makes her protagonists fit within their lifetimes and universes while still keeping them accessible to modern readers. And I enjoy that, although I put certain pieces of the puzzle together ahead of the denouement, I didn't have all of them or a complete picture before it was revealed. After the spate of bad books I've been reading lately, this was like a lovely vacation in an oasis.
I enjoy Hambly's hand with a mystery; the clues are there to be followed, if embedded and hidden behind screens of historical and informational persiflage and the solving of the case never feels like it was pulled out of thin air. Too, I really enjoy the obvious research and thought she puts into her world and character building in a way that makes her protagonists fit within their lifetimes and universes while still keeping them accessible to modern readers. And I enjoy that, although I put certain pieces of the puzzle together ahead of the denouement, I didn't have all of them or a complete picture before it was revealed. After the spate of bad books I've been reading lately, this was like a lovely vacation in an oasis.