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Starting/joining in with buddy reads
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White Nights by Ann Cleeves (Shetland #2) (August/Sept 25)
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I really wanted to love this book. I'd read another book by this author a while ago and was fairly luke-warm about it, but kept hearing good things about her so I thought I'd try another one.
It started off well with some of the elements I enjoy in a murder mystery including a village setting and a varied group of characters. But I didn't really get to know any of them and there was no one I could really root for so I found myself losing interest in the second half of the book. ...more
It started off well with some of the elements I enjoy in a murder mystery including a village setting and a varied group of characters. But I didn't really get to know any of them and there was no one I could really root for so I found myself losing interest in the second half of the book. ...more
I enjoy Aird's dry humor and C D Sloan's outlook on life. This plot involves the dangers of village fetes, especially fortune telling, and the unfairness in vegetable judging.
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Another cracker from Catherine Aird, this time the milieu being the local flower show with characters from high to low. Which of the many suspects did the deadly deed? Witty and procedural, wry and insightful.
The GR blurb:
‘Things had gone wrong from the very beginning at the Almstone Flower Show, including a missing fortuneteller. But events take a decidedly macabre turn when the fortuneteller is found -- and Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby arrive to investigate a murder ...more
The GR blurb:
‘Things had gone wrong from the very beginning at the Almstone Flower Show, including a missing fortuneteller. But events take a decidedly macabre turn when the fortuneteller is found -- and Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby arrive to investigate a murder ...more
This starts with a dispute over tomatoes, at a flower show, which seemed highly probable, as I think a lot of disputes over specimens in these shows are can be questioned. It seems that the village nurse helps out at the fete by running a fortune telling tent, but obviously hadn't foretold of her murder. Sloan, together with Crosby, are put on the case to find her murderer. It would seem that the location of the show is questionable as to it's future, as the owner of the Priory Estate has died a
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