Murder in the country
351258
one of the best written cosys. Celina Grace has good characters fully developedVerity and Joan are mere servants but their detecting skills reveal an exciting and surprising other side to these girls.  MURder is a good cozy read
4891891
This is a great mystery. People are being killed all across the country by the same person. How are they connected? Some are men, some women, older couples and young people. They has to be a common thread somewhere that is putting them together. Mike Posten is receiving calls that tell him who and where the next victim is going to be before the bodies are found. Is this the killer or an informant? Victoria Santos leds a group of FBI agents in trying to find and stop the killing. The book takes many twist and turns, it ties people to the killer in ways you can not think of. It will hold your attenion. You may not sleep to secure for a night or two but it is a good book.
236995
A good story set against the backdrop of a fascinating country and a mix of cultures with a curious twist on justice.
2280599
A man commits brutal murder (shot in the head.)  Amanda moves in with Myrna.  To a rural location.  In this rural town she is going to keep a police column.  I sense foreshadowing when the man tells her "shouldn't be much to write...nothing ever happens in this town."  I enjoyed this mystery.  I counted 27 characters in this story and I can't lie,  I started to feel like some of them were not developed enough.  My mind was following them and waiting for them to enter the scene again.  Some did and some didn't.  Aliases were used.  Kind of a brain tease to follow and rewarding to connect the dots.  I enjoyed when the characters last names were given towards the second half of the novel.  If I had to choose, use of full names or developing the characters...I would have chose for the author to elaborate on character utilization and pertinence to the story.  But I think I get what she was trying to do with her writing style.  I also liked the shut up and drive ending!
517426
This is a fast-moving thriller which takes place in areas of the country that draw my interest.  The clever moves of the antagonist kept me turning pages without pause.
3098824
This book is a good story of murder and revenge. The heroine is Maisie Dobbs and the tale is set in the early 1930s. Maisie is a  PI who is recruited by Scotland Yard to attend a new college devoted to peace in the Cambridge University system. The founder of the college is Dr. Greville Liddicote  famous for his belief in pacificism following the horror of World War I. Maisie acts as a philosophy teacher at the school sending reports to Scotland Yard on activities which could prove harmful to His Majesty's Government. She is shocked with Liddicote is found strangled to death in his comfortable office. The author of "The Peaceful Little Warriors" is dead. This children's book became famous  because of its readership of troops in the bloody trenches of France which turned young men into pacifists. The book was read by both sides. One of the teachers at the school learned his son had been executed as a deserter after his perusal of the book. Dr. Matthias Roth, formerly a German officer in the Great War, is Liddicote's assistant who turned to pacifism following the Armistice in 1918. A secondary plot deals with the murder of Maisie's friend Sandra's husband Eric while working at a car dealership.  The novel is good at drawing the mood of Great Britain in the 1930s as the threat of Fascism reared its ugly head in Germany. Two of the British characters in story are Nazis. We also are made privy to the love affair between Maisie and the wealthy James
Compton who runs a large company and was a flying ace in World War I. A quiet book where the violence occurs offstage. Enjoy!
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I got the Kindle edition at a bargain price.  It was definitely worth the price.  It reads like one of those Dateline or 20/20 whodunnit episodes, but with more depth.  And of course this murder is set back in time so that we learn something about the culture of the midwest at that time.  I thought it was very entertaining.  It is limited only by the limits in what is known about the murder, which unfortunately is quite a bit.
2033720
Good fast moving murder mystery with lots of plot twists. A suspenseful intrigue set in the south of France in the days just before WWI.
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Lynley and Havers head to the countryside to deal with a gruesome double murder involving a hero of Lynley's from the past.  Much action takes place at the site and back in London as a family deals with the truth about their murdered daughter.
4386818
A murder takes place in Wyoming.  A boy is on the run.  Jessie Arnold has agreed to drive a motor home from Idaho to Alaska for the contractor who is building her new cabin.  These two worlds collide on the highway and Jessie finds herself smack dab in the middle of trouble.  There is less story involving her dogs in this one, although she does have her lead dog, Tank, with her.  This story is more about the characters she meets on the road and they are an interesting bunch.  There is a lot of scenic description, which Henry always does very well.  This is a good story for readers interested in travel. Some of the chase scenes were riveting, but the mystery, itself, fell a little short.
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A pretty good murder mystery. Characters are interesting and the ending is a bit of a surprise.
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This murder mystery is part of a series that takes place in England just after WWI. The main character, Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard has returned to the Yard after four years of war in France and is still recovering from Psychiatric issues. It is enjoyable to read a novel of an England that is in a different time. When Ian has to crank his car to get it started and when social graces and customs were rigidly followed. But intertwined in the stories are the facts of history where England's dominance in the world and its class and social systems are under severe strain and starting to fray at the seams. The Inspector deals with these issues in all his cases. In in book you see the hidden grittier side of a class and social system that he deals with as he investigates several murders and reexamines an old solved case that he might have gotten wrong.
In this book there were so many suspects it took awhile to keep track of them. But it was good reading as the Inspector eliminated one suspect after another. The author leaves you in suspense until the very last pages.
This book, as the others in the series are an absolute delight to read.
3629026
A neat story, placed in "God's Country", the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A mystery, a loss, a murder and a team of two women with Search and Rescue dogs. Great read.
1414811
There was a murder for Bruno to solve, but this novel is more about the French countryside than about the murder.  Solving the murder gives Walker a reason for giving the reader a history lesson about the Dordogne section of France.  The descriptions of the area remind me of Peter Mayles stories centered in Provence.  Either author makes me want to grab my passport and head for France.
1569472
I enjoyed reading how murders and police work is done on the other side of the pond!  I read a lot of mystery, murder/thrillers and most are in the states, so this was interesting to learn new slang and terminology used in another country,
4795568
This is a fun mystery set in the 30s in colonial Sri Lanka.  The book gives an interesting picture of the island and the relationship of the Britishto the native population. the leading detective is native as is constantly struggling with  obstacles the British government puts in his way to get at the truth. His wife, an ex  British governess, contributes her thoughts as a reader of Agatha Christie novels.
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Tenacious London detective Stephen Lavender and his affable assistant, patrol officer Ned Woods, combine their strengths to sort out a brutal murder in rural 19th century England.  Colorful individuals, both urbane and rustic, along with descriptions of the changing countryside during the era when its vast canal network was built, form the backdrop.  A red herring, aristocratic privilege and the repressed Roman Catholic Church all stand in the way of finding the truth.  But it is found.  In spades.

Informative, highly enjoyable reading.  Believable, well described characters.  Recommend.