Don't Leave Me

Thames Valley Mystery #15

by Clare Curzon

Superintendent Mike Yeadings must reopen the unsolved case of Caroline Winterton, who disappeared eight years earlier, when her daughter vanishes under mysterious circumstances. Reprint.

Genres: Mystery, British Literature

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan (1922-2010) was a British author who specialized in writing literature belonging to the mystery, suspense, or detective genre. She wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Marie Buchanan, Marie Duell, Clare Curzon and Rhona Petrie. She studied French and psychology at King's College in London.

Reviews

[LJ]

DON’T LEAVE ME – G
Clare Curzon
Years after a rich woman disappears, her daughter also vanishes under suspicious circumstances. Superintendent Mike Yeadings consequently reopens the earlier case and searches for clues in both.

Unfortunately, I found myself not really caring about any of the characters except the policeman. I never had enough of a sense of the girl to feel the tragedy of her disappearance. The best part for me was to finally have a policeman who is solidly married with a strong family unit. I doubt I’ll read more of this series.

[Sharon]

When the police investigate two disappearances in the same family that occur eight years apart the result is unusual in a bone chilling way. An interesting read with well defined and interesting characters.

[Karen Baadsgaard]

BAD- DIDN'T READ

[Margaret]

This was a good book - I liked the character of Mike Yeadings and especially the character of DS Rosemary Zyczynski ("Z" - I had to look up her name again to write this!) and I wanted to know more about her. I thought the ending was a little weird and convoluted and something I would have never guessed but I did like being kept guessing with their various theories. Enjoyable - I would definitely read more by this author too.

[Mia]

Eh. I want to be a mystery person--half of my local library's fiction section is devoted to mysteries, and I'd love to have so many choices. I keep trying this mystery and that, but nothing suits. This one has a nice Britishness about it, and it doesn't rely on graphic violence or shock value to stir up the desire to find out whodunit, but ... I don't know. I have a feeling the problem is me.

[Kay]

Just looking for new British mysteries and stumbled on Clare Curzon and read four of her Mike Yeadings books in a row--she looks like the perfect English elderly lady about to take tea, sweet and sharp at once, but she writes with a dark edge, a generous dollopof Ruth Rendell, but Curzon is her own plotter, her own mystery-weaver, her own language magician. I'll read more of her for sure!!

[Linda Anderson]

Not my usual kind of reading but I must say I really enjoyed it!! Very well written.

[Shirley]

Nice cozy and British locales always a plus