Richard Jury Mysteries The Grave Maurice, Book 18, (Paperback)

from JanicsEblen

While I normally enjoy her books, this one was not really my cup of tea. Not up to her usual standards.

from gypsysmom

This is another Richard Jury novel whose title comes from the name of an English pub (as do all the Richard Jury titles). Jury is recuperating from gunshot wounds but his friend, Melrose Plant, knows just the thing to get him well, a mystery. Jury's surgeon had a daughter abducted 2 years previou...

from claude_lambert

Of all the living mystery writers, Martha Grimes has the most style. A lovely writing said the Chicago Tribune, and it is true. Her usual heroes, the unhappy detective Jury and his aristocratic friend Melrose are as fascinating as was Peter Wimsey in the old books of Dorothy Sawyers. Slightly but...

from phoenixcomet

18th in the series and the first book that just felt too long at times to read. Plus the tragic ending was just one too many tragedies for me in my murder mysteries. After being shot at the end of the previous novel, Richard Jury finds himself in the hospital being ministered to by Dr. Roger Ryde...

from brochettes

Not sure about this one. I liked parts of it, but all in all I couldn't really get into it- the characters were all a bit flat, and the plucky-young-child/ teenage-person (beautiful of course, no acne breakouts or gawkiness here)-with-tragic-past/ future- thing is beginning to get a little tireso...