Lake District Mysteries: The Serpent Pool (Paperback)

from whirligigwitch

Great sense of place and atmosphere but I didn't feel the writing was particularly good. The ending tied the plot up neatly but it was thin throughout the book. If I hadn't read the previous three books in Edwards' Lake District mysteries already I wouldn't have persevered with this; as it is I e...

from jenzbaker

DCI Hannah Scarlett reopens a cold case. She lives near the pool where Bethany drowned in a few inches of water. Also another case: Daniel the literary historian. Action mirrors the past, secrets revealed. Menacing gloom atmosphere and great evocation of Lake District and denizens, interesting su...

from toddhurley

When I first received this advance copy I was excited to get into a series by an author that was new to me. As I read the blurb on the back cover I was initially worried about what I was about to read. Maybe it was just the way the blurb was written, but it was sounding very confusing to me right...

from cathyskye

I love how author Martin Edwards can weave together (1) a nuanced and compelling romantic triangle between Hannah, Daniel and Marc, (2) the glorious and sometimes creepy setting of England's Lake District, and (3) investigations into a fascinating cold case as well as one occurring in the present...

from smik

One of the unsolved crimes that always worried DCI Hannah Scarlett's former boss Ben Kind was the drowning of Bethany Friend in the Serpent Pool, a shallow lake not very far from where Hannah and her partner second hand bookseller Marc Amos now live. Bethany's death went down on the books as suic...