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These books are impressive just for their ability to immerse the reader in the 1930s. This is one of the strongest titles in the series to date ... Very highly recommended. --MyShelf.com
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The tenth and final murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read a number of the books in this series and I found this one rather disappointing - it cannot make up its mind if it is a historical novel about the Woolf's or a piece of detective fiction. Alas, it does neither job particularly satisfactorily: the 'plot' is weak and the denouement rushed.
Format:Hardcover
The outbreak of another World War is weeks away, and Lord Edward Corinth and his new wife, the indubitable journalist Verity Brown (now Lady Edward) are spending the last days of peace in the Sussex village of Rodmell, where they have taken a house, the Old Vicarage, on the advice of their friends. The village is also the home of writer Virginia Woolfe and her husband Leonard, along with a few other creative types, a retired First World War veteran and an impassioned vicar. It's at the annual fete that the obnoxious womaniser poet, Byron Gates, is murdered, in a particularly gruesome beheading, and though Edward tries hard not to get involved, the combination of his own and Verity's natural curiosity will not let him sit aside.
Amongst the investigating of Gates's death, the temporary guardianship of his daughters, deepening their acquaintance with the neighbours and the visits to London to pursue their roles in the forthcoming conflict, which is in the air all around them, particularly in a capital readying itself for raids, the newlyweds soon find the days flying by. Can they solve the murder of Gates and the subsequent linked deaths before the war will tear them apart, perhaps forever?
'Sweet Sorrow' is another good story from this engaging, well-written series. Apparently, this is the last in the series, and if that is the case, you are left to make up your own mind how the characters and those about them fare in the war.
A fitting end to Edward and Verity's stories, if so.
Amongst the investigating of Gates's death, the temporary guardianship of his daughters, deepening their acquaintance with the neighbours and the visits to London to pursue their roles in the forthcoming conflict, which is in the air all around them, particularly in a capital readying itself for raids, the newlyweds soon find the days flying by. Can they solve the murder of Gates and the subsequent linked deaths before the war will tear them apart, perhaps forever?
'Sweet Sorrow' is another good story from this engaging, well-written series. Apparently, this is the last in the series, and if that is the case, you are left to make up your own mind how the characters and those about them fare in the war.
A fitting end to Edward and Verity's stories, if so.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Very engaging characters and fascinating historical detail. You learn all about the atmosphere before WW2 I didn't want the series to end.. Hope for another one soon!
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Dorothy L Sayers must be spinning in her grave !
In the blurb above it says :
August 1939, the last hot days of a perfect English summer - war is now certain, this week, next week ...soon. Read more
August 1939, the last hot days of a perfect English summer - war is now certain, this week, next week ...soon. Read more
Published 20 months ago by fivestarfrankie
very enjoyable.
I enjoyed this book as much as his other books in the serie about Verity and Edward.
Published 20 months ago by Mrs. T. H. Deadman
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