A review by kindleandilluminate
Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart by Ellis Peters

3.0

Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart has all the quintessentially Felsian elements - a murder mystery that isn't, quite, and that unspools slowly and gently right at the end; lyrical and languorously focused prose; strong themes of decorous convention vs uncivilized purity of emotion; and a preoccupation with one of Ellis Peters's own non-murderous pet interests. In this case, it's folk music - or ballads, as she lets the long-haired singer Liri Palmer emphasize for her. But the story is, as always, sweetly tragic, if rather more overtly foreshadowed and thus quickly predictable here than usual, and after there was no George at all in Piper on the Mountain, I was glad to have him back in a central role. (Fingers crossed Bunty gets a proper appearance in the next one.)