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Title: A Finer End by Deborah Crombie, Jenny Sterlin ISBN: 1-84197-387-4 Publisher: Recorded Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 9 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.84 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Entry in a Great Series
Comment: While not strictly a historical mystery, this seventh outing for Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James has historical elements.
When Kincaid, a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendant, is called by his cousin, Jack Montifort, to help discover who ran down Anglican priest Winifred Catesby and nearly killed her. Kincaid reluctantly agrees to talk to a few people and asks his former partner, the newly promoted Inspector James, to accompany him to Glastonbury. Once there, Montifort tells them that he has been in contact with an 800-year-old priest who wants him to do something, but he's not yet sure what. When another woman is killed, Kincaid moves into high gear.
Crombie has once again written a beautifully rendered mystery. The plot is intricate, but not so intricate as to be incomprehensible. She is able to move the story along at a sprightly pace despite several characters, including the long-dead priest. This is a fascinating read both from a historical perspective, Crombie is adept at giving you history without making it the focal point, and from a mystery perspective, why would anyone want to run down an Anglican priest and kill a ceramicist?
This book has it all - character development (once again Kincaid and James' relationship is changing), plot, mystery, procedural, and good old-fashioned great writing. Do not pass this series and this entry into the series
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Read!
Comment: This is the seventh Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James outing in a series that is one of the best being written today.
When Kincaid, a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendant, is called by his cousin, Jack Montifort, to help discover who ran down Anglican priest Winifred Catesby and nearly killed her. Kincaid reluctantly agrees to talk to a few people and asks his former partner, the newly promoted Inspector James, to accompany him to Glastonbury. Once there, Montifort tells them that he has been in contact with an 800-year-old priest who wants him to do something, but he's not yet sure what. When another woman is killed, Kincaid moves into high gear.
Crombie has once again written a beautifully rendered mystery. The plot is intricate, but not so intricate as to be incomprehensible. She is able to move the story along at a sprightly pace despite several characters, including the long-dead priest. This is a fascinating read both from a historical perspective, Crombie is adept at giving you history without making it the focal point, and from a mystery perspective, why would anyone want to run down an Anglican priest and kill a ceramicist?
This book has it all - character development (once again Kincaid and James' relationship is changing), plot, mystery, procedural, and good old-fashioned great writing. Do not pass this series and this entry into the series by.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Wonderfully Well-Written Mystery
Comment: This book is beautifully written and Deborah Crombie has a way of weaving the very distant past into the present that is seamless and utterly beautiful. Her descriptions of the countryside around Glastonbury are also beautifully drawn, and it sure made me want to visit this ancient place. She draws her main characters very well, but it's her secondary characters that seem to come alive from the page. She is an incredibly talented writer. This book gets off to somewhat of a slow start, but once about halfway through the pace picks up and it moves very quickly. I find this book almost has a dreamlike atmosphere to it as Ms. Crombie spins her yarn and as she decribes things from the medieval ages and how it applies to the modern-day. Kincaid and Gemma go to Glastonbury at the request of Duncan's cousin. While there they meet all kinds of wonderful characters - some remnants from the hippy era, a very young unwed mother, a middle-aged female vicar, and Gemma particularly is touched by the magic of the place and of the old abbey. It turns out that ancient violence ends up cropping up in modern-day Glastonbury and Gemma and Duncan are on the tail of a killer. Are all the accidents and murders that are occuring around them committed by one person or more? That is something they have to find out before someone else pays the ultimate price with their life.
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