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  <title><![CDATA[An Air That Kills (Lydmouth, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>It is the week when Jill Francis first comes to Lydmouth. Jill is an outsider in more senses than one. She's a journalist in a man's profession, an onlooker belonging nowhere. And she has her own tragic reasons for knowing that November is the month of the dead.

When workmen demolishing an old inn discover the pitiful remains of a newborn baby in a disused privy, Jill becomes an unwilling partner in Detective Inspector Richard Thornhill's investigation. Thornhill himself is an outsider, a man torn by desires he dare not articulate even to himself.

The case stretches back to a celebrated Victorian murder trial, and forward to the more recent past. Its ramifications spread like a cancer through the close-knit provincial community. Old wounds begin to bleed again, and suddenly there is another corpse. </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[First Sentence:  November is the month of the dead.<br/><br/>Both journalist Jill Francis and Inspector Richard Thornhill are new to Lydmouth and both have issues in their lives.  Richard is trying to become accustomed to the ways of the small town and Jill is staying with her friend, Phillip, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52079903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book immensely, not only because it feeds my need for mystery murder thrillers, but mostly because it was English and that made it fun.  I actually admired the people who were always smoking something, the incredibly damp wet weather and the bitter beer. It brought back memories of Du...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45075378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been wanting to read this book for a long time. Andrew Taylor is one of my favourite authors of all time. He is a natural story teller who can create just the right atmosphere for the time and setting.<br/><br/>An Air That Kills is the first in the Lydmouth series. Unlike most other crime/mys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28089886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good setting of scene, but plot was boring and predictable.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the earliest (if not the first) of the Lydmouth series.  Introduces Richard Thornhill and Jill Francis, along with Lydmouth.]]></body>
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