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The cover of my edition of this book is so evocative!
Maybe because this was a sadder time and setting, but I didn't enjoy this Kaye as much as the previous Death In... titles I have read.
Other than with the two main characters Kaye shows her usual gift for characterisation and dialogue. Miranda is a very colourless heroine. So is the hero, Simon. I really was starting to wonder (view spoiler)
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Maybe because this was a sadder time and setting, but I didn't enjoy this Kaye as much as the previous Death In... titles I have read.
Other than with the two main characters Kaye shows her usual gift for characterisation and dialogue. Miranda is a very colourless heroine. So is the hero, Simon. I really was starting to wonder (view spoiler)
I also t ...more
Group read for the Retro Group, Feb 2020
This is a new author for me but I have already ordered a multi novel book of hers because I was enjoying this one so much. I enjoyed the setting of Germany and the time period, several years following WWII. Another thing I really liked was the author's ability to create so much tension. The ending could have been a little less wordy but it did keep me guessing until the end. ...more
This is a new author for me but I have already ordered a multi novel book of hers because I was enjoying this one so much. I enjoyed the setting of Germany and the time period, several years following WWII. Another thing I really liked was the author's ability to create so much tension. The ending could have been a little less wordy but it did keep me guessing until the end. ...more
I have enjoyed it more than Death in Kashmir (considering a mystery, it was built and revealed nicely). But it lacked a philosophical level. I was interested in how Berlin looked and 'felt' at that time. Consequently to the location, it lacked humour. And, although a romance was scanty I was thrilled by Simon.
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No rating. Kind of boring, but then it's a genre I don't usually enjoy.
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Spellbinding page-turner! Although the heroine and the hero feel cut from the same cloth as Kaye’s characters in Death in Kashmir, I still love this novel. You can’t put it down!
Apr 10, 2020
Leslie Ray
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Wayne Jordaan
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Luísa Meireles
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Alice
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Caroline
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Dec 04, 2023
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