Flaxborough Chronicles: Bump in the Night (Series #02) (Paperback)

from gpangel

Bump in the Night by Colin Watson is a 2018 Farrago publication. (First published in 1960) The Flaxborough Chronicles by Colin Watson is a mystery series, which began in 1958 and ran through the mid-1980s. Farrago has reissued the series in digital format and has given the covers a new and improv...

from iadam

I received a free e-copy of this book and have chosen to write an honest and unbiased review. I have no personal affiliation with the author. This is the second Colin Watson British murder mystery that I've read. I love his quirky and eccentric characters with their wry British humor and slang. F...

from GrandmaCootie

What a marvelous idea it was to re-release this series. Those of us who did not read it the first time around can now experience the joy of visiting Flaxborough, and I'm ready to visit for a long time. Bump in the Night is the second in the Flaxborough Mystery series by Colin Watson. The time is ...

from pgchuis

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. This is the second of the Flaxborough series and I found it far less enjoyable than the fourth (Lonelyheart 4122) - I am reading them out of order. Here a series of explosions demolishes a statue, a fountain and an optician's sign....

from JimPratt

Slow-starting and not leisurely as much as sedately paced, this mystery explores a tightly-knit community's secrets, prejudices and passions (apologies for blurb-speak). The weapon of destruction is dynamite, which turns out to be home-made, and there is an interesting little puzzle of a poem tha...