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Death In Disguise (Chief Inspector Barnaby #3)
When the charming Master of a New Age commune is quite prematurely transported into the Other World - right in the middle of a regression - a riotous tale of murder most bizarre and romance most improbable takes off. It's up to the always down-to-earth Chief Inspector Barnaby and the thorough but vulnerable Sergeant Troy to sort through the tangled relationships and passio...more
Paperback, 412 pages
Published
April 1st 2007
by Felony & Mayhem
(first published 1992)
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The village of Compton Dando is ambivalent about the group of people at the big house. They are some sort of religious cult and commune but they also hold courses for interested people. Even Joyce Barnaby – wife of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby has attended one of their courses. When the leader of the commune is stabbed to death Tom Barnaby finds himself spending more time that he wants to with the inhabitants of manor. Businessman Guy Gamelin is visiting the house to try and persuade hi...more
Jan 04, 2011
russell barnes
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
20th-century,
crime
At the risk of upsetting purists, it's not as good as watching John Nettles bumble around the Midsomer (Oxfordshire) countryside - but then what is?
Partly this is because Barnaby doesn't even appear for 100-odd pages, and when he does the pace immediately picks up, and there's less room for the over-the-top, new age kookiness of the Golden Windhorse lodge.
Partly because I found Caroline Graham's prose quite odd: at times writing like an East End villain, and others littering the text with turns...more
Partly this is because Barnaby doesn't even appear for 100-odd pages, and when he does the pace immediately picks up, and there's less room for the over-the-top, new age kookiness of the Golden Windhorse lodge.
Partly because I found Caroline Graham's prose quite odd: at times writing like an East End villain, and others littering the text with turns...more
DCI Barnaby must solve the murder of the master of a new age center, the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse. Some people maintain that the master is a true mystic; Sgt. Troy thinks he's a con man.
There are other deaths to complicate things. Another member of the Lodge had died in a possibly suspicious accident. The father of yet another Lodge member dies of a heart attack shortly after visiting the center.
Graham has great fun with the mix of gullibilty, charlatanism, and sincere spiritual seeking tha...more
There are other deaths to complicate things. Another member of the Lodge had died in a possibly suspicious accident. The father of yet another Lodge member dies of a heart attack shortly after visiting the center.
Graham has great fun with the mix of gullibilty, charlatanism, and sincere spiritual seeking tha...more
#3 Inspector Barnaby English mystery. Set on a large estate that is run and occupied by a New Age religious group. Chief Inspector Barnaby and Sgt. Troy arrive when The Master, the head of the group, is murdered during a regression session. This book was very slow-moving for me, long and drawn out, with much detail about the lives of the members of the group, such that Inspector Barnaby doesn’t even make an entrance until page 133.
I liked the other two books in the series, but really found this...more
I liked the other two books in the series, but really found this...more
I really wanted to love this book, since I adored Graham's "Murder at Madingley Grange." The writing and characterization were not bad, and there were some wonderfully witty bits (such as an aging hippie bursting into a sunny quatrain containing the line "Bright radiance in a golden shower." I'm still snickering over that one.) I enjoyed the ending. Still, I found "...Madingley Grange" to be the better read, with characters that are less muddled.
It is just so sad that this author is no longer writing books, because this is such a wonderful series. I really enjoy this modern day English police procedural.
DCI Tom Barnaby is a wonderful character, Caroline Garham writes her characters so well that you really feel as if you know both Tom and his Sargent Troy quite well after you finish each book in this series.
This is another great addition to the Midsomer Murder mystery books.
There are alot of unique and very well developed characters and...more
DCI Tom Barnaby is a wonderful character, Caroline Garham writes her characters so well that you really feel as if you know both Tom and his Sargent Troy quite well after you finish each book in this series.
This is another great addition to the Midsomer Murder mystery books.
There are alot of unique and very well developed characters and...more
The best part of this series, for me, is Inspector Barnaby and the relationships he has with his family and with Troy, his sergeant. Then there is the relationship he has with himself. He is able to see himself as he truly is, flaws and all. He may not be able to eliminate the flaws, but he does not overlook them and their impact on others and on his ability to do his work.
The cast of characters in this book are quite fun and Caroline Graham provides ties up their stories neatly by the end of th...more
The cast of characters in this book are quite fun and Caroline Graham provides ties up their stories neatly by the end of th...more
I had read this book when it 1st came out and also remembered seeing the British series movie. So, my enjoyment level probably was tested because of those factors. Once again, I like the series better than the books now. And, will probably rquest them from Netflix over and over.
This is the first Caroline Graham book I have read and I enjoyed it. I found that I kept looking up some of the words she used on my I Pad so it was educational also! I have enjoyed watching the English series, Midsomer Mysteries which is based on the Graham books. This book introduced some interesting characters and it was intriguing to figure out "who did it."
I was disappointed in this murder mystery. The author writes well, but the characters never came to life for me, the story dragged, and before too long, I didn't really care who killed whom.
Jan 12, 2010
Melissa
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
favorite-authors,
mysteries
Could be my favorite of the Inspector Barnaby mysteries. I love the characters in this one, all so delightfully new-age-kooky.
wanted to see more of Chief Barnaby. Occassionally I got really frustrated with how over the top the characters seemed. Like a little less would have given me more...
The story was just okay. I'm starting to think Graham is homophobic, and it's annoying.
I thought I'd get confused with who the characters in the community were but it was OK. There was a lot of detail about their 'new-age oddball lives'.
Justice comes the long way round, good, satisfying, long
I admit it - my vision of Barnaby and Troy was formed by the BBC series and I find it very difficult to read Graham's representation of Troy as a snarky, self-absorbed (except for his baby daughter), dark-ages type of husband with few (if any) redeeming qualities. I gave up on the book. :)
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a llttle too satiric/parodic and "British" humor
Jul 29, 2008
Anna
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Those who like detective stories
Shelves:
mysteryspy
Oh this book was great! A really fun fun book that is more about the characters than the story. I love the characters themselves, the relationships they have with each other, and the great understanding Inspector Barnaby has of them all.
I don't know, Carolin Graham is just a fun author, that's all I have to say. This book beats the pants off of the Agatha Christie books I've read so far.
I don't know, Carolin Graham is just a fun author, that's all I have to say. This book beats the pants off of the Agatha Christie books I've read so far.
This book like all the others was great. I really enjoyed how this story differed from the film version and that the book allowed one to get to know the characters better. The dynamic between Troy and Barnbey is the books is fascinating to observe and see develop, but I do like their relationship in the film better and enjoy the books and film equally.
Full of interesting characters - story moves quite slowly - not a real 'who done it'....
Finally finished - I now know more about the 'Outer Screen of Life' and the 'Inner Matrix of Reality' than I really needed to know (and I'm not even counting the great 'Devas of the Crystal Grid' and the 'Concentrated Flame of the Presence of the Sacred Fires').
Finally finished - I now know more about the 'Outer Screen of Life' and the 'Inner Matrix of Reality' than I really needed to know (and I'm not even counting the great 'Devas of the Crystal Grid' and the 'Concentrated Flame of the Presence of the Sacred Fires').
By far this is my favoiate of the Inspector Barnaby series. I love the way she plays out all the relationships of the different characters in this one.
A quirky mystery in a fairly quirky series. This one was particularly odd but fun to read.
ok mystery book.
Funny read.
Jun 11, 2013
Ana Assunção
marked it as to-read
Jun 10, 2013
Deborah Lyons
marked it as to-read
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Caroline Graham is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She attended the Open University, and received a degree in writing for the theatre from the University of Birmingham.
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Jan 05, 2011 11:37am