County Guides Mystery The Norfolk Mystery, Book 1, (Paperback)

from bjmitch

Subtitled "A County Guides Mystery," this e-book is one of HarperCollins new Witness Impulse imprint. I will be trying several titles from this imprint in the next few weeks, hoping that the books will be good reads. This is a good start. The story begins in London in the 1930s and then moves to ...

from Oreillynsf

As usual, Ian Sansom can be counted on for a witty and peculiar mystery where the characters outshine the actual mystery. But that's OK because Sansom's wit always carries the day. I've been waiting for a new book from Sansom since the last installment of the Mobile Library Mysteries and this one...

from NewsieQ

Stephen Sefton is assisting Professor Swanton Morley, a prolific author who plans to write guidebooks to every county in England (40+ of them) within two years, by 1939. He needs Sefton's help. Their first county is Norfolk - and just as they begin their research a local vicar is found hung in hi...

from AntT

Just finished this and not sure yet what I think. I'd definitely read another Sansom before I tossed him aside.

from jtck121166

'Sherlock Holmes with a dash of Lord Peter Wimsey' indeed? Well, hardly: unless we are speaking of the author, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of trivia and Latin tags, as put in the mouth of his protagonist, the autodidact and polymath, 'People's Professor' Swanton Morley, certainly challenges tha...