A review by nonna7
Arms And The Women by Reginald Hill

4.0

love Reginald Hill, but this book is not among my favorites. While I appreciate the wit and erudition that he displays in this book and others, this one is a little over the top. When someone tries to abduct Ellie Pascoe, the first thought is that someone is trying to avenge themselves on her husband. It is DS Shirley Novello who suggests otherwise, and she turns out to be correct. Since I read this out of order, I didn't know that Rosie (Ellie and Peter Pascoe's daughter) had meningitis and was very ill for a long time, plus her best friend died. This is the book that follows that period. Ellie has written a book which has been sent off to a publisher. Now she sits in a windowless storeroom working on a "comfort blanket" of a novel featuring Aeneas and the aftermath of the Greek/Trojan War. I could have done without that. The book is nearly 500 pages long. It could have done with a bit of editing in my opinion. Still it's a good one and worth reading. Just do what I did which was to skip some of the action and the book within a book.