Inspector Trave The Inheritance, Book 1, (Paperback)

from Myckyee

This book was just okay to not great for me. I didn't like the main character all that much. Also the plot lacked something - it was just not as clever as I expected it would be. It was predictable. I enjoyed the parts about the court system in Britain but that's about it.

from TheAlternativeOne

The Inheritance is, in my estimation, a very good murder mystery. The World War II back story is intriguing and interesting and the characters are, for the most part, believable and worth investing time in. While the mystery, which borders on being a locked-room-murder, is similar to others of th...

from MrsLee

This is part mystery, part courtroom drama and part secret-code treasure hunt. Tolkien writes intensely at times, compelling me into the story with his action. His characters are well drawn, yet I was lacking sympathy for any of them. Possibly I could become attached to Inspector Trave, if he dev...

from Chatterbox

Stephen Cade and his father have been estranged for years, thanks to the latter's crimes in pursuit of a rare item dating to the era of Charlemagne. Covered up as a war crime, those misdeeds are going to come back to haunt Colonel Cade -- but is it Stephen who kills his father 15 years after the ...

from paeonia

A workmanlike mystery, quite reminiscent of the Christie locked room type, but uninspiring. I figured out whodunnit quite early on. And I absolutely hated the ending, which I thought was cheap and sentimental.