Widow's Peak

Nell Bray #4

by Gillian Linscott

Book by Gillian Linscott

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

210 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1995

About the author

Gillian Linscott introduced her popular suffragette/sleuth, Nell Bray, in the critically acclaimed Sister Beneath the Sheet. A BBC reporter turned full-time writer, she lives in Herefordshire, England.

Linscott has also published several titles under the pseudonym Caro Peacock.

Reviews

[Stef Rozitis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm no sure if this was ACTUALLY a five star book or if I just feel that way about it because it was exactly what I wanted to be reading right now. Set in Chamonix 1910, a cold-case (literally) and a "suffragette sleuthess" gets caught up in the past and present to unravel a good puzzle of a mystery. A range of characters that I really enjoyed and a nuanced aromantic feminism.

Agatha Christie without the problematic aspects. Every time I picked this book up I just wanted to keep reading it instead of going out to parties or whatever (so I read it on the bus).

I'm going to make sure to read more of the Nell Bray mysteries.

[Jane Gabin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series is really tops. Takes you right into the heyday of the suffrage movement. Nell Bray is the suffrage/detective, and she is a strong and thoughtful protagonist. A good read, and historically accurate!

[Kirsty Darbyshire]

Nell Bray gets out of London and away to the Alps where she ends up tangled up with a family who have come to fetch the body of an English climber killed a couple of decades before. It was good to see Nell in a not especially suffragette like setting and I was glad to see Linscott bringing Nell's translation skills, which have sat in the background in most of the other books, to the fore.

[Earthwatchaddict · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fun little mystery. Very quick read. The main character is a suffragette in the early 1900's. She is a very easy character to root for.

[Tessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had completely forgotten this series which I had read before and found it well written and a good story.

[Austen to Zafón · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit twee and chirpy, but largely enjoyable if you love the era and place.