Josephine Tey Mysteries Angel with Two Faces, Book 2, (Paperback)

from mmignano11

Although I found this Golden Age mystery slow off the starting block, I came to greatly enjoy not only the plot, and the complicated, intricate characterizations, but the writing itself. Upson's main character, Josephine Tey, is a writer of mystery novels, a singular career for either gender in t...

from Alinea

This is Nicola Upson's second crime novel featuring Josephine Tey, the "Golden Age" crime writer. Except that Tey never quite fitted that pattern. In her work there was something darker than the comfy puzzles of her contemporaries - hints of child abuse, lesbian undercurrents. Upson's book is pac...

from jcwlib

I found this book on the giveaway shelf at work and was drawn in by the setting of the book - Cornwall, England. When I studied abroad in England back in 1999, I spent a weekend exploring the main towns & villages of Cornwall and fell in love with their charm & quaintness. I was hoping this book ...

from rvhatha

I have tried to like this series--read the first one a few years back, and while I enjoyed it, at the time I wasn't in a hurry to start the second book. I finally picked it up, and I have to say I was not only disappointed, but kind of skeeved out by it. It's hard to explain why without serious s...

from LizARees

Entertaining enough read, though the plot has more twists and turns than the coastline of Cornwall, where the book is set. Some may find it all just too implausible.