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Green for Danger (Inspector Cockrill #2)

Christianna Brand

Start date: November 1, 2023

Finish date: November 30, 2023

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Why we're reading this: Winner of the poll for our November group read.
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Nov 13, 2022 Tania rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

Christiana Brand is an author I had been hearing good things about for some time, so I was keen to try try her out, and this one certainly didn't leave me disappointed.

It's set in a military hospital during WW2. In the first chapter we are introduced to several people about to take up posts there. Life in the hospital is pretty hectic, especially during and after the many air-raids taking place. On one night, and older gentleman is brought in from an air-raid, and the next morning he does on the ...more

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Aug 05, 2017 Jill rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: christianna-brand, 2018-reading-challenge

Really liked this book. I think that maybe the fact that we got to know the characters helped a lot. My money was on the wrong person being the villain, and the explanation at the end was great!
At first the setting of a hospital did put me off a bit, when an operation was written about giving more details than I wanted to know, but thankfully this didn't happen again. The portrayal of the war going on around the hospital seemed to be as I would imagine it must have been, and the relationships we ...more

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Sep 09, 2022 Andréa marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: british-isles, arc, mystery-thriller-crime, netgalley-edelweiss, digital, classics, ww2-holocaust

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through Edelweiss.

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Jan 10, 2018 Sandy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-classic, rread-2023, mystery-detective-grp, rread-2018

I quite enjoyed this classic mystery. Excellent setting: a military hospital in WWII during the blitz. The introduction of the characters via letters the postman carried was well done, with appropriate foreboding. Then it is six months later, the cast has assembled and the story begins. Very well written.

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