Richard Jury Mysteries: The Five Bells and Bladebone (Series #9) (Paperback)

from jetangen4571

What a diabolical imagination! Obfuscation all the way in this one which has a murder in the country and one in a transitional neighborhood in London that are totally connected. The happy ending part of me wishes that the orphaned brother and the totally bereft grandmother could be left together....

from ChazziFrazz

Long Piddleton antiques dealer, Marshall Trueblood, has finally gotten the owner of Watermeadows Estate to sell him and exquisite rosewood desk at a great price. What he doesn't expect is the dead body that has been stuffed into it. The body turns out to be Simon Lean, the husband of the owner's ...

from elise920

A flawed but entertaining novel with a very clever ending. The author has the tendency to introduce numerous characters and spell out ALL their names even though they would not ever show up again and has no significance at all in the novel. The writing is slightly above average for the genre, but...

from phoenixcomet

I do not care for Martha Grimes intentionally ambiguous endings and this one was just that. Richard heads on vacation to Long Piddleton to meet up with Melrose Plant for a little R&R. Instead he ends up embroiled in another murder mystery when Simon Lean, local philanderer ends up dead in Marshal...

from jetangen4571

What a diabolical imagination! Obfuscation all the way in this one which has a murder in the country and one in a transitional neighborhood in London that are totally connected. The happy ending part of me wishes that the orphaned brother and the totally bereft grandmother could be left together....