Death on the Rocks

Lucy Trimble #2

by Eric Wright

Novice investigator Lucy Trimble gets an intriguing case in which she is asked to track down the mystery of Greta Golden's birth, and the clues lead her to a Cornish cliff where another mystery awaits.

Genres: Mystery, Canada

343 pages, Hardcover

First published June 18, 1999

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Eric Wright was born in London, England and immigrated to Canada in 1951. He is the award-winning author of seventeen crime novels, including his first novel, The Night the Gods Smiled, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel, the Crime Writer's Association's John Creasey Award, and the City of Toronto Book Award. His memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, about growing up poor in working-class London, was published in 1999.

Reviews

[Polly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Annoying! Private Investigator, Lucy Trimble, unbelievable and unlikeable - vapid. Author's attempt at various English accents in the dialogue, unbearable. Other assorted characters, unconvincing. Virtually no plot worth caring about. I wouldn't have finished it if I'd had another book at hand.

[Heather Pearson · Rating 3 out of 5]

good solid PI novel

[Sheila Soprovich · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun to read because of the connections with Toronto and environs, but some of the dialogue and interplay between characters seems awkward. Not going to continue with this series.

[Ed · Rating 3 out of 5]

#2 in the Lucy Trimble Brenner series. The pleasant, naïve Lucy is the protagonist of an undistinguished, if readable, two book series. Here Lucy completes the arc of escape from her domineering husband, through a sporadic affair, an accidental career as a Toronto Private Investigator, and a maturing of her love life. A drawback to this series entry is that a major plot device was used in the first book of the series.

Lucy Trimble Brenner series - When private detective Lucy Trimble is retained by Greta Golden to find the identity of the stranger who Greta is certain is following her, it doesn't appear to be too challenging a mystery. Lucy has no trouble learning who her client's pursuer is: a British investigator engaged to probe into Greta's life. But the question of what he is trying to discover about Greta, and why, begins to truly complicate the case. This revelation soon opens up further questions about Greta's own identity and, more specifically, the identities of her mother and father. Lucy's investigation leads her to Cornwall, England, where there still live witnesses to Greta's birth and her father's death.

[Teena in Toronto · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was excited to find this mystery series that is based in Toronto.

The author is originally from England and that comes through as he talks about Toronto. No one refers to Yorkville as "Yorkville Village". And he referred to the Harbourfront streetcar route by something weird. I didn't get the feeling that he knew what he was writing about.

I didn't enjoying the writing style ... I found it frivolous. And I didn't care about the characters.

I tried to stick with it but finally gave up halfway through and skimmed to see how it ended.

[Homerun2 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the two offbeat Lucy Trimble mysteries and plan to check out the author's more numerous Charlie Salter books ...

[Lynne Baxter · Rating 3 out of 5]

I gave this book a 3 out of 5 because Lucy Trimble, as the main character, did not excite me. But that is probably just me so don't hesitate to give this book, and the one before it, a read.