Death of a Pilgrim (Lord Francis Powerscourt 8)
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When the first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France, Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate.
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1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you enjoy the Powerscourt novels you won't be disappointed. This time the setting is a pilgrimage through France and Spain to Compostela. The characters are all members of an extended family, and there's a savage murder at every stop, garnished with plenty of local colour and educational details .
enter Lord Powerscourt and his team, to solve the mystery. The tension is good, and the culprit well concealed to the final act, in fact I guessed wrongly the identity of the murderer, but the clues were there.
If I have a critiscism it is that number of red herrings are a little dazzling, and I'd have enjoyed a deeper study of each character, and that's why I've given four stars. Still it cracks along, you don't have time to be bored, and (as always) it has a happy ending.
I know these stories aren't everyone's taste - but it's such a relief to be spared the extended graphic violence other authors use so freely. I love the Kiplingesque bravery of Powerscourt and Fitzgerald, and the engaging characters they encounter.
Powerscourt remains my Ronald Coleman , and I look forward to the next novel.
enter Lord Powerscourt and his team, to solve the mystery. The tension is good, and the culprit well concealed to the final act, in fact I guessed wrongly the identity of the murderer, but the clues were there.
If I have a critiscism it is that number of red herrings are a little dazzling, and I'd have enjoyed a deeper study of each character, and that's why I've given four stars. Still it cracks along, you don't have time to be bored, and (as always) it has a happy ending.
I know these stories aren't everyone's taste - but it's such a relief to be spared the extended graphic violence other authors use so freely. I love the Kiplingesque bravery of Powerscourt and Fitzgerald, and the engaging characters they encounter.
Powerscourt remains my Ronald Coleman , and I look forward to the next novel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the second of the Powerscourt series that i have read. Having enjoyed the first book, i was looking forward to this one.
I reached page 123 before i first considered abandoning it, and throughout the book there were the odd moments when it was nearly put aside.
The plot is o.k, and as always Lord and Lady Powerscourt are likeable and intelligent. But the very act of finding out who killed so and so was plodding and appeared formulaic.
I still liked Johnny Fitzgerald, though.
Read it, but don't expect much.
I reached page 123 before i first considered abandoning it, and throughout the book there were the odd moments when it was nearly put aside.
The plot is o.k, and as always Lord and Lady Powerscourt are likeable and intelligent. But the very act of finding out who killed so and so was plodding and appeared formulaic.
I still liked Johnny Fitzgerald, though.
Read it, but don't expect much.
Format:Paperback
David Dickinson, a British writer, has published a number of mysteries set in Victorian and Edwardian England, starring Sir Francis Powerscourt, an ex-militaryman, turned private investigator. "Death of a Pilgrim", centered mainly in southern France and northern Spain, presents a group of pilgrims who are walking to Santiago de Compostela. The pilgrims, an American-British-and-Irish group of men and one woman, were assembled by Michael Delaney, an American industrialist, who is making the pilgrimage to honor God for saving the live of his only child, a son called James. All the pilgrims in the group are affiliated in some way with Michael Delaney, mostly members of his extended family.
As the pilgrims assemble in southern France for their onward journey, members of the group begin to die, done in by quite hideous methods. A dead Delaney here, a dead Delaney there, and soon the French authorities have a mess on their hands. Michael Delaney calls in the service of Powerscourt and his wife Lady Lucy, who travel down to Le Puy from their house in London, to join the pilgrims and try to solve the on-going murders. He does succeed, eventually, with a little help from "sources" in both Ireland and the US and a nasty bull in Pampalona, Spain.
Dickinson writes a nice little mystery. The characters - the members of the pilgrim party - are the usual odd bunch of people who get together. Everyone has a "personality", a personal "flaw", or something to set him (and her) off from the usual bunch of people traveling together. The Powerscourts are interesting and smart and cobble together the answer to the murders in a very stylish manner. Think "Nick and Nora" set about thirty years earlier and without "Asta". "Death of a Pilgrim" is a good story, and the reader will learn a lot about pilgrimages, which is knowledge always handy in parlor games!
As the pilgrims assemble in southern France for their onward journey, members of the group begin to die, done in by quite hideous methods. A dead Delaney here, a dead Delaney there, and soon the French authorities have a mess on their hands. Michael Delaney calls in the service of Powerscourt and his wife Lady Lucy, who travel down to Le Puy from their house in London, to join the pilgrims and try to solve the on-going murders. He does succeed, eventually, with a little help from "sources" in both Ireland and the US and a nasty bull in Pampalona, Spain.
Dickinson writes a nice little mystery. The characters - the members of the pilgrim party - are the usual odd bunch of people who get together. Everyone has a "personality", a personal "flaw", or something to set him (and her) off from the usual bunch of people traveling together. The Powerscourts are interesting and smart and cobble together the answer to the murders in a very stylish manner. Think "Nick and Nora" set about thirty years earlier and without "Asta". "Death of a Pilgrim" is a good story, and the reader will learn a lot about pilgrimages, which is knowledge always handy in parlor games!
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