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George & Molly Palmer-Jones #3
Murder In Paradise
Newlyweds Jim and Sarah are welcomed home from their honeymoon to the Scottish island of Kinness with a huge celebration, and the whole island is present to witness the bitter end. But did Jim's younger sister Mary fall? Or was she pushed? George Palmer-Jones, retired birdwatcher and amateur detective, suspects the latter, but proving it will be difficult - no one wants to upset the balance of the island's ancient relationships.
There are definitely secrets being hidden, and George, helped by Sarah, begin to piece together a tragic story he wishes he had never heard. Kinness is a paradise lost.
There are definitely secrets being hidden, and George, helped by Sarah, begin to piece together a tragic story he wishes he had never heard. Kinness is a paradise lost.
256 pages, Paperback
First published September 8, 1988
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Ann Cleeves
134 books8,489 followersAnn is the author of the books behind ITV's VERA, now in it's third series, and the BBC's SHETLAND, which will be aired in December 2012. Ann's DI Vera Stanhope series of books is set in Northumberland and features the well loved detective along with her partner Joe Ashworth. Ann's Shetland series bring us DI Jimmy Perez, investigating in the mysterious, dark, and beautiful Shetland Islands...
Ann grew up in the country, first in Herefordshire, then in North Devon. Her father was a village school teacher. After dropping out of university she took a number of temporary jobs - child care officer, women's refuge leader, bird observatory cook, auxiliary coastguard - before going back to college and training to be a probation officer.
While she was cooking in the Bird Observatory on Fair Isle, she met her husband Tim, a visiting ornithologist. She was attracted less by the ornithology than the bottle of malt whisky she saw in his rucksack when she showed him his room. Soon after they married, Tim was appointed as warden of Hilbre, a tiny tidal island nature reserve in the Dee Estuary. They were the only residents, there was no mains electricity or water and access to the mainland was at low tide across the shore. If a person's not heavily into birds - and Ann isn't - there's not much to do on Hilbre and that was when she started writing. Her first series of crime novels features the elderly naturalist, George Palmer-Jones. A couple of these books are seriously dreadful.
In 1987 Tim, Ann and their two daughters moved to Northumberland and the north east provides the inspiration for many of her subsequent titles. The girls have both taken up with Geordie lads. In the autumn of 2006, Ann and Tim finally achieved their ambition of moving back to the North East.
For the National Year of Reading, Ann was made reader-in-residence for three library authorities. It came as a revelation that it was possible to get paid for talking to readers about books! She went on to set up reading groups in prisons as part of the Inside Books project, became Cheltenham Literature Festival's first reader-in-residence and still enjoys working with libraries.
Ann Cleeves on stage at the Duncan Lawrie Dagger awards ceremony
Ann's short film for Border TV, Catching Birds, won a Royal Television Society Award. She has twice been short listed for a CWA Dagger Award - once for her short story The Plater, and the following year for the Dagger in the Library award.
In 2006 Ann Cleeves was the first winner of the prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association for Raven Black, the first volume of her Shetland Quartet. The Duncan Lawrie Dagger replaces the CWA's Gold Dagger award, and the winner receives £20,000, making it the world's largest award for crime fiction.
Ann's success was announced at the 2006 Dagger Awards ceremony at the Waldorf Hilton, in London's Aldwych, on Thursday 29 June 2006. She said: "I have never won anything before in my life, so it was a complete shock - but lovely of course.. The evening was relatively relaxing because I'd lost my voice and knew that even if the unexpected happened there was physically no way I could utter a word. So I wouldn't have to give a speech. My editor was deputed to do it!"
The judging panel consisted of Geoff Bradley (non-voting Chair), Lyn Brown MP (a committee member on the London Libraries service), Frances Gray (an academic who writes about and teaches courses on modern crime fiction), Heather O'Donoghue (academic, linguist, crime fiction reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, and keen reader of all crime fiction) and Barry Forshaw (reviewer and editor of Crime Time magazine).
Ann's books have been translated into sixteen languages. She's a bestseller in Scandinavia and Germany. Her novels sell widely and to critical acclaim in the United States. Raven Black was shortlisted for the Martin Beck award for best translated crime novel in Sweden in 200
Ann grew up in the country, first in Herefordshire, then in North Devon. Her father was a village school teacher. After dropping out of university she took a number of temporary jobs - child care officer, women's refuge leader, bird observatory cook, auxiliary coastguard - before going back to college and training to be a probation officer.
While she was cooking in the Bird Observatory on Fair Isle, she met her husband Tim, a visiting ornithologist. She was attracted less by the ornithology than the bottle of malt whisky she saw in his rucksack when she showed him his room. Soon after they married, Tim was appointed as warden of Hilbre, a tiny tidal island nature reserve in the Dee Estuary. They were the only residents, there was no mains electricity or water and access to the mainland was at low tide across the shore. If a person's not heavily into birds - and Ann isn't - there's not much to do on Hilbre and that was when she started writing. Her first series of crime novels features the elderly naturalist, George Palmer-Jones. A couple of these books are seriously dreadful.
In 1987 Tim, Ann and their two daughters moved to Northumberland and the north east provides the inspiration for many of her subsequent titles. The girls have both taken up with Geordie lads. In the autumn of 2006, Ann and Tim finally achieved their ambition of moving back to the North East.
For the National Year of Reading, Ann was made reader-in-residence for three library authorities. It came as a revelation that it was possible to get paid for talking to readers about books! She went on to set up reading groups in prisons as part of the Inside Books project, became Cheltenham Literature Festival's first reader-in-residence and still enjoys working with libraries.
Ann Cleeves on stage at the Duncan Lawrie Dagger awards ceremony
Ann's short film for Border TV, Catching Birds, won a Royal Television Society Award. She has twice been short listed for a CWA Dagger Award - once for her short story The Plater, and the following year for the Dagger in the Library award.
In 2006 Ann Cleeves was the first winner of the prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association for Raven Black, the first volume of her Shetland Quartet. The Duncan Lawrie Dagger replaces the CWA's Gold Dagger award, and the winner receives £20,000, making it the world's largest award for crime fiction.
Ann's success was announced at the 2006 Dagger Awards ceremony at the Waldorf Hilton, in London's Aldwych, on Thursday 29 June 2006. She said: "I have never won anything before in my life, so it was a complete shock - but lovely of course.. The evening was relatively relaxing because I'd lost my voice and knew that even if the unexpected happened there was physically no way I could utter a word. So I wouldn't have to give a speech. My editor was deputed to do it!"
The judging panel consisted of Geoff Bradley (non-voting Chair), Lyn Brown MP (a committee member on the London Libraries service), Frances Gray (an academic who writes about and teaches courses on modern crime fiction), Heather O'Donoghue (academic, linguist, crime fiction reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, and keen reader of all crime fiction) and Barry Forshaw (reviewer and editor of Crime Time magazine).
Ann's books have been translated into sixteen languages. She's a bestseller in Scandinavia and Germany. Her novels sell widely and to critical acclaim in the United States. Raven Black was shortlisted for the Martin Beck award for best translated crime novel in Sweden in 200
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January 21, 2021I frequently return to Ann Cleeves, as I enjoy her writing. This book, while I finished it, didn't seem up to her usual standard. I wonder if she wrote it quickly or under time pressure. George Palmer-Jones seems a somewhat unlikely character, and other characters in the book lack substance. Still, it was an enjoyable read.
April 18, 2021
I did not find this Ann Cleese's book as good as most others. Too many characters, too much whining and such a bogus reason for 2 murders. I don't know why I read this two times. I must have forgotten how bad it really was and forgot that I had already read it.
November 19, 2024
A solid but not spectacular read. Maybe it was that most of the characters had flaws even the ‘detective’ was a bit of a busy body rather than a person to be really admired.
I have another Ann Cleeves but I don’t see myself rushing to read it.
I have another Ann Cleeves but I don’t see myself rushing to read it.
August 5, 2024
This third installment in the early Ann Cleeves series featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones is a decent read. Molly is notably absent from the action this time, as George goes off alone on one of his ornithological expeditions without her comforting presence (comforting for George, though not necessarily the reader). He is bereft without her, and instead relies on a newly wed young woman who has recently married an islander, and therefore also considered an outsider, for support in his investigation. She is infinitely more down to earth than Molly.
Kinness is a tiny island with two main historically warring families living on it. The interrelationships are drawn extremely well in the book, as is the sense of claustrophobia that must come from living in a place where secrets are known but not talked about explicitly.
Tragedies happen in small island communities as a matter of course, but George has a preternatural sense that the death of a child is not the accident the islanders believe it to be initially, with an amazing stoicism. The women, including the child's mother, continue stubbornly to knit, while the men round up sheep and shoot game as normal. Apparently, no candlelit vigils for deceased children occur on remote Scottish islands. George, not quite as accepting, sets about the difficult task of getting to the bottom of the sequence of events leading up to what his instinct tells him is a murder, leading of course to another dramatic sequence of events.
It's unclear why this book is given the title it is, as clearly, Kinness is anything but an Eden-like community. However, the characters and rivalries are portrayed skillfully and this is a satisfying read. There is less reference to bird-watching than in the previous two installments, which go into a level of detail on the subject that is probably unnecessary to convey the characters' interest in it. In all, this is probably the most accomplished of the three in this series that I've read so far in 2024.
Kinness is a tiny island with two main historically warring families living on it. The interrelationships are drawn extremely well in the book, as is the sense of claustrophobia that must come from living in a place where secrets are known but not talked about explicitly.
Tragedies happen in small island communities as a matter of course, but George has a preternatural sense that the death of a child is not the accident the islanders believe it to be initially, with an amazing stoicism. The women, including the child's mother, continue stubbornly to knit, while the men round up sheep and shoot game as normal. Apparently, no candlelit vigils for deceased children occur on remote Scottish islands. George, not quite as accepting, sets about the difficult task of getting to the bottom of the sequence of events leading up to what his instinct tells him is a murder, leading of course to another dramatic sequence of events.
It's unclear why this book is given the title it is, as clearly, Kinness is anything but an Eden-like community. However, the characters and rivalries are portrayed skillfully and this is a satisfying read. There is less reference to bird-watching than in the previous two installments, which go into a level of detail on the subject that is probably unnecessary to convey the characters' interest in it. In all, this is probably the most accomplished of the three in this series that I've read so far in 2024.
July 4, 2021
This was a wonderful story about an outlying island in the United Kingdom and the clans that operate there. Of course, a murder happens, and then another, and our hero solves the mystery. Beautifully written and great characters.
May 4, 2019
The weakest of the series so far. Not enough birds and George very snitty.
June 2, 2023
There was a lot to the plot which made this an interesting read. I did find quite a few typos however.
September 27, 2024
3.5 I find these books a little too grim to warrant four stars. Molly is the best character and George is horrible to her sometimes. She isn't even in this book and I don't understand why you would have a book series for a duo and leave one of them out for no good reason. I'll carry on with the series but they don't grab me like Vera Stanhope.
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July 19, 2025
Not my favourite Ann Cleeves book. It did portray a sense of claustrophobia living on a small island where people know each other's secrets and of how difficult it can be for an outsider to be accepted.
February 21, 2019
George visits a birding colleague on a remote island. People die. Of course the deaths turn out to be murders. Molly has stayed home so is not involved in discovering who the killer is. Somehow this makes the story less believable for me. I enjoy the different skills Molly and George bring to solving mysteries. This is a serviceable mystery but having read other Palmer-Jones mysteries, this one lacked the parallel information gathering of their joint investigations. .
October 10, 2020
A bit dull, a bit rambling - and too many names begin with the same letter.
I didn’t care for George, the guy who is investigating. He asks the new wife to help him but won’t let her be privy to his thoughts.
If I was stuck somewhere and this was on the shelf I’d read it - but there are too many books to follow on with this series.
I love the other series.
I didn’t care for George, the guy who is investigating. He asks the new wife to help him but won’t let her be privy to his thoughts.
If I was stuck somewhere and this was on the shelf I’d read it - but there are too many books to follow on with this series.
I love the other series.
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February 20, 2016Not great literature (shallow, somewhat stereotypical, characters), but an okay mystery set on an island off the coast of Scotland. Good for reading on a plane.
August 28, 2020
Tiny and isolated community makes for unique tensions.
March 11, 2021
love this series, all the bird watching is interesting
July 21, 2023
So I was pretty late to the Ann Cleeves party, discovering her through the Shetland TV series a few years back, then Vera, and subsequently working back through both those series and the newer Matthew Venn books.
I’d never really been in to crime books til then, but quickly became a Cleeves fan.
This book though…..I was initially mystified as to why it was so below par. Too many characters, stilted dialogue, very slow to get moving, and a self appointed investigator with no apparent authority who goes around questioning people. And none of them tell him to go mind his own business? No forensics or real evidence to speak of.
Not to mention a wildly convoluted explanation for the murder, and a rather melodramatic ending.
Then there’s the mystifying line right near the end, about what one of the characters names her son. A real “what the?” moment, which has got to be an error of some sort. I might’ve actually snorted out loud. And tbh even the title is pretty uninspiring and probably should have clued me in earlier as to what was going on here.
So not Cleeves best work for sure, though once I realised it’s actually from 1988 I was able to at least start enjoying it as an interesting artifact. It reads like an early blueprint for the Shetland series, with the whole insular island community vibe. And the bird watching references turn up in Vera of course. And there’s a couple of the characters that are likely early versions of similar characters in her later books.
So from that perspective it’s an interesting read to see just how far Ann Cleeves has come (and it’s clearly a long way), and see her playing around with ideas, but it certainly lacks the plotting, polish and cohesiveness of the writer she is today.
If you’re interested in seeing Ann Cleeves evolution as a writer, by all means give it a go, but if you’re expecting a cracking good mystery in the same vein as Vera, maybe wait for the next Matthew Venn.
I’d never really been in to crime books til then, but quickly became a Cleeves fan.
This book though…..I was initially mystified as to why it was so below par. Too many characters, stilted dialogue, very slow to get moving, and a self appointed investigator with no apparent authority who goes around questioning people. And none of them tell him to go mind his own business? No forensics or real evidence to speak of.
Not to mention a wildly convoluted explanation for the murder, and a rather melodramatic ending.
Then there’s the mystifying line right near the end, about what one of the characters names her son. A real “what the?” moment, which has got to be an error of some sort. I might’ve actually snorted out loud. And tbh even the title is pretty uninspiring and probably should have clued me in earlier as to what was going on here.
So not Cleeves best work for sure, though once I realised it’s actually from 1988 I was able to at least start enjoying it as an interesting artifact. It reads like an early blueprint for the Shetland series, with the whole insular island community vibe. And the bird watching references turn up in Vera of course. And there’s a couple of the characters that are likely early versions of similar characters in her later books.
So from that perspective it’s an interesting read to see just how far Ann Cleeves has come (and it’s clearly a long way), and see her playing around with ideas, but it certainly lacks the plotting, polish and cohesiveness of the writer she is today.
If you’re interested in seeing Ann Cleeves evolution as a writer, by all means give it a go, but if you’re expecting a cracking good mystery in the same vein as Vera, maybe wait for the next Matthew Venn.
April 10, 2023
My least favorite of the series so far. Probably because this one doesn't have Molly in it at all outside of references to her. I do want to say that I loved that Cleeves lets us all know what happened to some of the major players in this story. I don't recall her doing that much in her other books, but it was interesting to read what came next for some of the inhabitants of Kinness.
"Murder in Paradise" follows George Palmer-Jones who comes to the island of Kinness during a wedding celebration for Jim and his new wife Sarah. That evening there's a great party with dancing and drinking. But Jim's younger sister Mary is found dead the next day. Many think she fell, but George thinks she was pushed. And then another murder takes place and George is dead set on finding the guilty party.
This one for me felt a little slow. I think that having Sarah stand in for Molly wasn't that great of an idea. It did remind me a bit of how sometimes we would have Poirot having younger women help him out on his cases when Hastings was missing. And just like those stories, I often felt something was missing a bit. I think since Sarah had her own reasons for thinking about things I just wish we had stayed with George and had Molly flying out to the island to assist him.
This book also shows George struggling with what he wants to do. He's talking somewhat about being an amateur detective. But once again, you have him not wanting to find out who did what to whom since it would change the island of Kinness for him forever.
The other characters in this book are a lot. Tons of people had their own motives for not wanting any secrets to get out, but all is not revealed until the end.
I thought this was a solid mystery, but definitely felt the flow and lack of Molly hampered my enjoyment of the book.
"Murder in Paradise" follows George Palmer-Jones who comes to the island of Kinness during a wedding celebration for Jim and his new wife Sarah. That evening there's a great party with dancing and drinking. But Jim's younger sister Mary is found dead the next day. Many think she fell, but George thinks she was pushed. And then another murder takes place and George is dead set on finding the guilty party.
This one for me felt a little slow. I think that having Sarah stand in for Molly wasn't that great of an idea. It did remind me a bit of how sometimes we would have Poirot having younger women help him out on his cases when Hastings was missing. And just like those stories, I often felt something was missing a bit. I think since Sarah had her own reasons for thinking about things I just wish we had stayed with George and had Molly flying out to the island to assist him.
This book also shows George struggling with what he wants to do. He's talking somewhat about being an amateur detective. But once again, you have him not wanting to find out who did what to whom since it would change the island of Kinness for him forever.
The other characters in this book are a lot. Tons of people had their own motives for not wanting any secrets to get out, but all is not revealed until the end.
I thought this was a solid mystery, but definitely felt the flow and lack of Molly hampered my enjoyment of the book.
October 13, 2022
Murder in Paradise by Ann Cleeves
Blurb
The honeymoon was over . . . and Jim and his English bride, Sarah, had come home to Kinness to settle down. But first there was to be one huge celebration for the newlyweds, with the whole island present. And before the party was over, there would be a shockingly unexpected death. Somehow, in the dark of the night, Jim’s young sister, Mary, slipped off Ellie’s Head to the rocks below. A terrible end to a boisterously cheerful evening.
But did Mary fall, or was she pushed? George Palmer-Jones, retired birdwatcher and amateur detective, suspected the latter, but proving it would be difficult: no one wanted to upset the balance of the island’s ancient relationships.
My Opinion
This is the third book in the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series, and they are relatively quick reads. This is not the best book in the series, but it was still enjoyable - it was lacking the detective skills seen in earlier books. A simple mystery with some great characters.
Rating 3/5
Blurb
The honeymoon was over . . . and Jim and his English bride, Sarah, had come home to Kinness to settle down. But first there was to be one huge celebration for the newlyweds, with the whole island present. And before the party was over, there would be a shockingly unexpected death. Somehow, in the dark of the night, Jim’s young sister, Mary, slipped off Ellie’s Head to the rocks below. A terrible end to a boisterously cheerful evening.
But did Mary fall, or was she pushed? George Palmer-Jones, retired birdwatcher and amateur detective, suspected the latter, but proving it would be difficult: no one wanted to upset the balance of the island’s ancient relationships.
My Opinion
This is the third book in the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series, and they are relatively quick reads. This is not the best book in the series, but it was still enjoyable - it was lacking the detective skills seen in earlier books. A simple mystery with some great characters.
Rating 3/5
October 13, 2022
I give it 3.5 stars. Having read the Shetland series, this one has the feeling of one of those books. George is off to the island of Kinness (fictional) for some bird watching and ringing. He usually stays with the local teacher and his wife. This time, local boy Jim moves home with his English wife Sarah. Sarah is looking forward to island life but will it live up to her expectations? On the night of their "wedding" party, Jim's younger sister goes missing. George isn't happy with how things are handled and begins stirring up secrets the islanders would rather keep buried.
I thought that in this one, Anne was improving. However, I thought the ending a bit muddled and rushed. Also, it suffers from the lack of Molly (at home helping their daughter). Sarah steps into the gap but it's not the same. Still, I like the description of island life. I find it very seductive, but I am sure it would be different in real life.
I thought that in this one, Anne was improving. However, I thought the ending a bit muddled and rushed. Also, it suffers from the lack of Molly (at home helping their daughter). Sarah steps into the gap but it's not the same. Still, I like the description of island life. I find it very seductive, but I am sure it would be different in real life.
October 11, 2023
I struggled with this book. I love Ann Cleeve's four other series but this one troubles me. The characters were so strange they were hard to connect to. The lead, George, was also hard to connect to.
May 10, 2025
Newly wed Sarah expects her husband, Jim’s remote island home, Kinness, to be a paradise. When a deaf child disappears from their traditional wedding party and is found below a cliff, George Palmer suspects it’s not an accident but the locals would rather the secrets and tensions he uncovers are left alone. The routine of crofting life continues even when another death occurs. As Sarah assists George in his determination to get to the truth she realises her husband is right, the island can’t be a museum. Yet you get the impression, as events sink into the past, that everything has essentially remained the same. No Molly in this story and you may guess the culprit early on, as I did. Still, a pleasant, quite cosy, crime read.
June 27, 2022
I think that the book should have been longer, not because it is such a good read (I didn’t find it so) but if the characters had been given more time to develop, and that the reader got to know them better, the story would hopefully have been more interesting. It is a small island where everybody knows everything about everybody else, or perhaps not, and where there are old tensions between the two families. And newcomers may have difficulties to settle in. The ornithological theme is very weak in this book and George not really a main character in the story. I liked the first two books in the series much better!
November 6, 2023
Wrote a review then lost it. Strong sense of place but this book, written in 1988, demonstrates that writers definitely improve their skills over time. The reader shares newly wed bride Sarah’s excitement as she comes to live on the Scottish island of Kinness with her new husband Jim. Happiness turns to grief as the first of two murders happens during their welcoming party. Having retired public servant & amateur detective George Palmer- Jones also come to the island seems just too contrived. However, I will continue to read Ann Cleeves and I am glad this was reissued in 2023 so I could appreciate the development of her writing skills.
March 16, 2025
I hadn't read any of the George & Molly books before, so I don't know how George is when Molly is with him (she's absent in this book). I have read a lot of Ann Cleeves' other books (Vera, Shetland, Venn, Ramsay) so I generally like her style, and the cases she comes up with. One thing I especially liked about this book is that it is much shorter (180 pages vs. usually about 375). I find with the longer books, my reading gets interrupted too many times, and when I come back to it I don't always remember who everyone is, or what is going on. With a shorter book I was able to stay on top of things and as a result I think I got more out of it.
September 23, 2023
An interesting read from Ann Cleeves.
An enjoyable read but had I not read the book over a weekend I would have needed to write down the names and relationships to keep track of the characters.
It’s clear that this story is part of Ann Cleeves development as a very special writer of murder mysteries. The setting, characterisations and story development all show hints of the great tales of Shetland and DCI Vera Stanhope that follow this series.
An enjoyable read but had I not read the book over a weekend I would have needed to write down the names and relationships to keep track of the characters.
It’s clear that this story is part of Ann Cleeves development as a very special writer of murder mysteries. The setting, characterisations and story development all show hints of the great tales of Shetland and DCI Vera Stanhope that follow this series.
January 4, 2024
I loved every bit of this moody mystery. I absolutely love when books, mystery or otherwise, are set on remote islands in Scotland. Ann Cleeves writing transported me there with her descriptions of the harsh landscape and weather and the unique way a small community operates on such an isolated island. Everyone's stories intrigued me and kept me wondering what secrets they may be harboring and why. Top-notch mystery!
June 20, 2023
Well what a disappointment. An airport/holiday read which wasn't even that. I expected so much more from the creator of Vera, Jimmy
Perez and Inspector Venn. Poorly written, rambling and drawn out, even the characters and associated relationships were hardly believable. This book was first written in 1988 so I can only assume Ann Cleeves improved with practice!
Perez and Inspector Venn. Poorly written, rambling and drawn out, even the characters and associated relationships were hardly believable. This book was first written in 1988 so I can only assume Ann Cleeves improved with practice!
June 30, 2023
Almost abandoned this halfway through. Too many characters with similar-sounding names: Sylvia, Sarah, Sandy, James, Jim... difficult to keep tract of who's who and most of the time I, honestly, didn't care. But, picked it back up and completed it as I want to continue the series. I gave it 2 stars because it's Ann Cleeves and I respect her as a writer.
November 7, 2023
Third book in the series, with some changes. George is now retired, and thinking of becoming a private detective. But his wife is not in this book. Miss the discussions they have as they research a murder.
January 9, 2024
The island's
This was my first story from Ann S
Cleeves about the island's but having read other authors it seems like another world.
This was a talent really was well crafted and I had no clue about the ending. I will read it again only negative is a little on the short side.
This was my first story from Ann S
Cleeves about the island's but having read other authors it seems like another world.
This was a talent really was well crafted and I had no clue about the ending. I will read it again only negative is a little on the short side.
February 28, 2024
An entertaining murder/mystery set on Kinness, a gorgeous Scottish island that I thoroughly enjoyed researching. It took time to get to know the many characters but eventually I sorted out who was who.
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