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Title: Dig Deep for Murder by Kate Kingsbury ISBN: 0-425-18886-8 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Better than the last entry
Comment: I enjoyed this episode much more than I did the previous entry in this series. There is not much of a mystery and the author uses a plot that I have read before in another mystery with regards to how the murderer attempts to get by with his/her crime. This particular book is more of a chapter in the life of the village rather than a mystery as more time and words are spent on the daily trials and tribulations of WW II life in small-town England than the mystery itself. I had almost decided not to buy this book after the last one, but am glad I did and will definitely buy the next installment. I do have to say, as I said in my review of the previous book, that once again, there are typos in the book. Berkley Prime Crime, do you not have spellcheck?
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining romantic mystery set in WW2 England
Comment: This is the fourth installment of Kate Kingsbury's Manor House series set in World War II England. Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh is a 31 year old divorcee who lives in the family manor house in the quiet village of Sitting Marsh. She is scraping by since her former husband gambled her money away but life must go on and appearances must be kept up.
As part of the war effort, she has given some of her land over to victory gardens for the villagers. During weeding of one of the neglected plots, a body is unearthed. Since the victim is one of her tenants, Lady Elizabeth is bound to find out what happened since the incompetent retired constables seem to have no interest in doing so. Along the way she enlists the help of Earl, an American Air Force officer billeted in one wing of the Mansion, who provides the romantic interest. Thrown in for good measure are side plots of solving petty thievery of food, and an accident and love interest involving Elizabeth's 16 year old assistant. What I enjoyed the most, was seeing life in an English village during wartime, where people go about their daily lives despite rationing, blackouts and loved ones off to war.
This book is an example of an old-fashioned English "cozy" mystery where the mystery is solved without undue bloodshed in a civilized way. An easy read and entertaining story.
Rating: 1
Summary: Can't warm up to new series
Comment: I enjoyed Kingsbury's Pennyfoot Hotel series, so when that concluded, I decided to try her new Manor House series. It isn't half as enjoyable. Since the first book, I have continued to hope the characters would grow on me, but they haven't. The lack of a smart, sympathetic female lead in a story that is built upon the premise of a plucky Englishwoman attempting to hold her village together during WWII is a major downfall.
Kingsbury poor handling of several plotlines (Polly's Age, Culture shock, Unexpected (?) resent ment of the English,etc) was not up to her usual standard. If I didn't know it was the same author, I wouldn't believe it. The Women and American military characters particularly rub me the wrong way. My neighbor was a WWII vet and he said that before they left US soil, they got a HUGE lecture about living in England- especially about behaviors that brought home war brides. How many times can Lady Elizabeth brush off lies and actions with the "It's wartime" excuse? It's become tiresome. Something I never thought I'd say about Kingsbury.
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Title: For Whom Death Tolls by Kate Kingsbury ISBN: 0425183866 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Death Is in the Air by Kate Kingsbury ISBN: 0425180948 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 08 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: No Clue at the Inn by Kate Kingsbury ISBN: 0425191885 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The English Breakfast Murder (Childs, Laura. Tea Shop Mysteries.) by Laura Childs ISBN: 042519129X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Berried Alive by Kate Kingsbury ISBN: 0425194906 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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