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This is a novel that had been sitting on my tbr list for some time. Though the idea of picking it up really peaked my interest, I think the fact that a number of books in the series are quite long put me off. Since I’m retired, I finally figured if I was ever going to read long books, now’s the time Leggi tutto

For me, the author's Inspector Lynley series checks all the boxes why I give "modern" detective fiction a wide berth. 1) useless, mind-numbingly boring navel-gazing of the detectives for 290 pages out of 400 - CHECK 2) (as a consequence of 1) story moving at a drunken snail's pace - CHECK 3) (as a cons Leggi tutto

UPDATE 2/1/17 ... I found "A Great Deliverance" as outstanding on second read as I did the first time around. My 5***** rating remains unchanged. George's ability to present an evolving and developing character is outstanding for any genre, but even more so for a mystery story, where character is oft Leggi tutto

I was surprised to dislike this book intensely. I'd not read (or seen) any Inspector Lynley and I was expecting to enjoy this tale of an aristocrat police detective. It's the first in the series and sometimes the first outing is not the best whilst an author is establishing characters but I am reall Leggi tutto

I usually dock a star if an animal is killed because that fictional horror is always needless. The reasoning in this police case was especially preposterous. A million other distractions could have been devised for a human murder; not committing an animal's. That was the most disturbing revelation,