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The Fawcett Green bell-ringers aren't particularly surprised when Simone Hollingsworth fails to turn up at practice. Her fellow campanologists just assume that bell ringing has become the latest in a long list of abandoned hobbies.
But then the increasingly strange behaviour of Simone's husband, Alan, begins to raise neighbourly suspicions about her whereabouts. And when the discovery of a body draws Chief Inspector Barnaby to the village, it becomes clear that unravelling the couple's tangled lives will have painful repercussions for the whole village...
But then the increasingly strange behaviour of Simone's husband, Alan, begins to raise neighbourly suspicions about her whereabouts. And when the discovery of a body draws Chief Inspector Barnaby to the village, it becomes clear that unravelling the couple's tangled lives will have painful repercussions for the whole village...
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Dubbed by The Sunday Times as, 'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' and by the Yorkshire Post as 'the most underrated British crime writer', Caroline Graham is the author of eight Inspector Barnaby novels.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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From the first minute Simone goes missing, the reader is pulled into the small, slightly off world of Fawcet Green. The reader is introduced to all its amazing little quirks systematically household by household. The book keeps you on the edge of your seat whilst you travel through the suspicions of Barnaby throughout the case. Look forward to a surprise ending to this book, one of Caroline Grahams best!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent again. Caroline Graham knows how to treat her readers to a feast of surprises with the wonderful Barnaby in the out-of this-world-village-to-die-for where crime itself seems surreal. Her novels are always gripping page-turners and here's another one. Delicious. Graham comes with a guarantee. She never disappoints.
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Caroline Graham is a very witty and clever author, and I've enjoyed most of her village mysteries a great deal for their over-the-top characters and serpentine plots. "Faithful unto Death" starts out with most of Graham's hallmark eccentrics living in a quaintly perfect English village. A disappearance followed by a death and another disappearance bring the estimable Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby to the scene, and eventually the mysteries are resolved. Fine and dandy--really. But this novel flopped over into something annoyingly different (for me), when the author set up some very vulnerable characters and left them to twist in the wind through to the end of the book. No justice, no real sympathy for decent people deeply wronged. This is also true for the arch villain of the piece who will also avoid real justice after causing most of the pain and suffering chronicled in the book.
This may just be me, but to fully enjoy even a book as skillfully crafted as this one, I think there should be some balm offered to the vulnerable and victimized--particularly if the guilty are going to allowed a free pass. By the way, this looked for slap down includes one badly needed by Inspector Barnaby's sidekick, Gavin Troy, who is portrayed as an insufferable jerk in this story--and he too gets no real comeuppance.
So, for me, "Faithful unto Death" has some good moments, but was not as enjoyable as other of Graham's books.
This may just be me, but to fully enjoy even a book as skillfully crafted as this one, I think there should be some balm offered to the vulnerable and victimized--particularly if the guilty are going to allowed a free pass. By the way, this looked for slap down includes one badly needed by Inspector Barnaby's sidekick, Gavin Troy, who is portrayed as an insufferable jerk in this story--and he too gets no real comeuppance.
So, for me, "Faithful unto Death" has some good moments, but was not as enjoyable as other of Graham's books.
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Faithful Unto Death
The royatlifetide review, was OTT, although I have not read this particular story, I have seen the TV adaptations,although most episodes were written for TV. Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2007 by Callisto
Whodunnit? Who cares?
I must start by saying that I had high expectations of this novel. I had heard great things about the series, and in fairness, it is well written. Read more
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