- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan (24 Jan 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333570936
- ISBN-13: 978-0333570937
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,391,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Inspector Ramsey is woken at 6.30 am by a phone call telling him that Dorothea Cassidy is missing, he takes it seriously. For this was no ordinary woman escaping from humdrum domestic routine. Dorothea was a vicar's wife, who had disappeared at the end of a day devoted to voluntary work.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book puts you in the socks of Detective Ramsay. This detective is called up for a standard murder enquiry. A body is found in a park, and from then on there are twists and turns.
Cleeves describes what is going through the detective's mind, whether its personal, about the job and task, or simply his arrogance towards other members of his crew.
The amazing thing is that struck me most is the ability to change the scene of the story many times per chapter. The story has many characters who are suspects, friends or detectives and they all do different things at the same times. The book takes you from one scene and place onto another. You will find out what happens to one and then it will move onto another person and you can see what happened to him at that same time.
In my opinion, the book is gripping in an obscure way when compared to what you think of it after reading a small amount. The scene changes and twists in the plot grip you to the book, and well, how has it had an impact on me? The answer is that I immediately went to get another Cleeves book!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Old time mystery
7 May 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If you enjoy mysteries without gore and sex - this is the book for you - nice easy reading with a great plot !
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Well-written but not the author's best effort
14 Jun 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I'm a big Ann Cleeves fan. I was definitely hooked once I had finished Bird in the Hand (George and Molly Palmer-Jones Mysteries).
This story is not in the same series as the aforementioned one -- here Detective Inspector Ramsay tries to track down the killer of a vicar's wife. She was lovely and effervescent but she had acquired the bad habit of trying to "help" folks who really just wanted to be left alone. As a consequence, her corpse was discovered early one morning in the local park while a village street carnival progressed happily along nearby. This tale does not lack for suspects, even subsequent to a second murder.
I actually correctly guessed the murderer's identity at the same moment as did the police in this one -- but then I've read so many of these cozy murders that I do nowadays tend to get about sixty percent of them right.
Unlike Cleeves' George and Molly Palmer-Jones series, this one lacked the endearing wallpaper -- it was more straight-forward. While I will not re-read it at a later date, I can still certainly recommend this clever mystery as a worthwhile entry among the author's numerous other fine works.
This story is not in the same series as the aforementioned one -- here Detective Inspector Ramsay tries to track down the killer of a vicar's wife. She was lovely and effervescent but she had acquired the bad habit of trying to "help" folks who really just wanted to be left alone. As a consequence, her corpse was discovered early one morning in the local park while a village street carnival progressed happily along nearby. This tale does not lack for suspects, even subsequent to a second murder.
I actually correctly guessed the murderer's identity at the same moment as did the police in this one -- but then I've read so many of these cozy murders that I do nowadays tend to get about sixty percent of them right.
Unlike Cleeves' George and Molly Palmer-Jones series, this one lacked the endearing wallpaper -- it was more straight-forward. While I will not re-read it at a later date, I can still certainly recommend this clever mystery as a worthwhile entry among the author's numerous other fine works.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A Good Read
21 May 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy by Ann Cleeves continues the Stephen Ramsay series. The protagonist is sympathetic--a British Inspector who is very human in his uncertainties and sympathies for the victims and for the criminals. He is paired with Hunter, who is in many ways his opposite number; they both are ambivalent about the partnership. The plotting is fair, in that the clues to the solution are scattered through the novel, and the reader does have the information necessary to solve the murder. There is none of the gratuitous graphic violence and gory description so often included in current novels. While not technically a "cozy," A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy certainly belongs in the softer, gentler tradition of the golden age mysteries.
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