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Phi Beta Murder

par C.S. Challinor

Séries: Rex Graves Mysteries (11)

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BOOK 3 IN THE ACCLAIMED REX GRAVES MYSTERY SERIES

Scottish barrister Rex Graves will never understand why the devil his son Campbell chose to go to college in Florida rather than attending university in bonny Scotland. During Rex??s visit across the pond, tragedy strikes when a student is found hanging from a rope in his locked dorm room. Did the poor lad commit suicide, or was it murder?

With one student dead and his own son in danger, Rex Graves vows to learn the truth. In between trying not to worry about Campbell and trying to please his new love, Helen d??Arcy (while keeping ex-girlfriend Moira at bay), Rex conducts his own investigation. What he finds is a maze of sordid secrets in the university??s not-so-hallowed halls.

 Praise for the Rex Graves mystery series by C. S. Challinor:

??A winner . . . a must for cozy fans.? ??Booklist (starred review)

??A clever variant on the locked room mystery. With a host of colorful characters, a dose of humor and a balmy locale, you will want to devour this well-plotted mystery.?
??Mystery Scene

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Rex Graves is visiting his son in sunny Florida. When another student in his dorm is found hanging Rex senses that something isn't right, it doesn't "feel" like suicide to him.

Meantime, Moira is back and has followed him to Florida to try and get back together with Rex. Rex is equally determined to break things off permanently and keep his relationship with Helen on track.

Rex has to work his way through American rules, laws and quirks to try and solve the mystery of who killed Dixon, and why.

Loved the interaction between Rex and his son Campbell. It felt real and natural not forced or stupid. I can't wait to read more in this series. ( )
  bookswoman | Mar 31, 2013 |
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C S Challinor's sojourns in Scotland and England and residency in Florida, her academic background, ear for language and love of the classic age of whodunits all contribute greatly to the authority of this novel. She writes sympathetically about individuals from one culture adapting to another, about the struggles and stresses of students coping away from home and the bemusement of their elders trying to get to grips with modern mores. And, for the mystery aficionado, she sprinkles the text with clues and red herrings in equal measure in best whodunit tradition. Phi Beta Murder is a fine page-turner given a sense of urgency by predetermined time-constraints and the cloistered and claustrophobic atmosphere of a second-rate Florida college where a student is found hanged. Add to that a list of dramatis personae and a taster for a sequel and you have a hugely enjoyable piece of bedtime fiction.

A confession: I'm not a great fan of mysteries, especially when they're self-declared cozy mysteries, a sub-genre paying homage to classic detective writers like Agatha Christie. In common with many critics characterisation can often seem mechanical and the individuals mere pawns in the plot-led story; in this sense their weakness is their strength, exactly as candy-floss, while not providing proper nutrition, nevertheless gives you the pleasure that comes with a sugar-hit. What gives Challinor's locked-room mystery its real meat, however, is the back story of Rex Graves, Scottish QC and amateur sleuth, and his all-too-human attempts to cope with family and relationships and what fate throws at him. Unlike the mystery plot there are no simple solutions to life's conundrums, and one really warms to this well-observed middle-aged male adrift in a sea of emotion.

A final observation: there must be few detective stories, let alone tales set in Edinburgh, with as arresting an opening sentence as "From Blackford Hill, the volcanic formation of Arthur's Seat resembled a pair of buttocks." If that doesn't grab your attention, I suspect nothing much will.

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BOOK 3 IN THE ACCLAIMED REX GRAVES MYSTERY SERIES

Scottish barrister Rex Graves will never understand why the devil his son Campbell chose to go to college in Florida rather than attending university in bonny Scotland. During Rex??s visit across the pond, tragedy strikes when a student is found hanging from a rope in his locked dorm room. Did the poor lad commit suicide, or was it murder?

With one student dead and his own son in danger, Rex Graves vows to learn the truth. In between trying not to worry about Campbell and trying to please his new love, Helen d??Arcy (while keeping ex-girlfriend Moira at bay), Rex conducts his own investigation. What he finds is a maze of sordid secrets in the university??s not-so-hallowed halls.

 Praise for the Rex Graves mystery series by C. S. Challinor:

??A winner . . . a must for cozy fans.? ??Booklist (starred review)

??A clever variant on the locked room mystery. With a host of colorful characters, a dose of humor and a balmy locale, you will want to devour this well-plotted mystery.?
??Mystery Scene

Phi Beta Murder is not affiliated or associated with the Phi Beta Kappa Society
 or any of its members or aff

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