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Title: Rainbow's End by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0-345-39426-7 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Travelogue or Mystery?
Comment: This is the second Grimes book I've read (both Richard Jury mysteries). I found the plots, with various twists and turns, to be believable and entertaining. The characters are well defined and easy to relate to, and there is good humor interspersed.
However, what I didn't like at all were the interminable descriptions of landscapes, scenes, even a cat! I also find Ms. Grimes' use of obscure/big words mildly irritating.
If all the excess verbage could be eliminated, I'd say these would be page turners. As they are, it's almost a chore to pick them up.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bravo!!!!
Comment: This is the first book I have read by Martha Grimes. I have to say she is a very good writer. "Rainbow's End" got me hooked from the very beginning to the end. This book has a wonderful plot and the characters are believeable and hilarious! The main character is Richard Jury and he has a suspicious beleif that these three "natural" deaths are connected and they were not "natural causes." He travels from Stonehenge, England to Sante Fe, New Mexico and discovers...well you read it for yourself!!! I reccommend this book for any avid mystery reader. You will love it!
Rating: 2
Summary: Long on words, short on substance
Comment: I've read the majority of Grimes' books, including several non-Jury ones and, actually I was quite disappointed with this one. It's long (over 400 pages) and tends to plod meandering between Jury, Plant, Wiggins, the inimitable Cripse family, but to me never really goes anywhere to adding to the story or, importantly, its resolution - more little vignettes of peoples lives rather than mystery tale. Naturally, there's Jury's ongoing personal dilemma of being constantly without female companionship and far too much time wasted on his self-analysis of quitting smoking, while other characters bog down the story with equal non-relevant issues.
The crimes are resolved over the final ten or so pages, with the previous text not really factoring into the story at all. I would have to say, not one of Ms. Grimes better efforts.
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Title: Old Contemptibles by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0345374568 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 22 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Horse You Came In On by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0345387554 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0451408683 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0451410025 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes ISBN: 0451410386 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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