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Chargement... Manna from Hadespar Carola Dunn
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I enjoyed this and will look for others of the series. Not the best mystery I ever read, but fun. A bit too much focus on keys! Wanda McCaddon is a wonderful reader! ( ) Cornwall, cosy-mystery, family, 1960s, small-business, small-town, widow, law-enforcement, murder, murder-investigation***** Ever wonder why a woman proven to be highly intelligent who has different priorities in her observations is labelled "scatty" or "dim" while a male is labelled "eccentric"? This tale is set in the 1960s in England. Eleanor Trewynn is herself in her 60's and widowed after a peripatetic life all over the globe with her husband. DI Scumble is set in his ways and a veritable parody of the breed. Eleanor's niece, DS Megan Pencarrow is more than capable despite having to tolerate her DI. Eleanor finds a body in the back room of the charity shop where she volunteers, and then the lunacy begins. It's a nice, slow cosy good for sitting with a mug of caffeine and simply enjoying a look at where we've bee, how far we've come, and, maybe, how far we still have to go. The narration is very nicely done by Wanda McCaddon who made the voices differentiate well. Much as I thought this was a fun whodunnit there were a few mistakes that spoilt it for me. Mainly the fact that Range Rovers were not introduced until the 1970’s and this book is set in the the 1960’s. Sadly lack of research made this a glaring error in an otherwise cosy read. The countryside of Cornwall is however well described and the plot is well done. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieCornish Mystery (1)
Eleanor Trewynn is a widow of some years living in Port Mabyn, a small fishing village in Cornwall, England. In her younger days, she traveled the exotic parts of the world with her husband. These days, she's retired and founded the local charity shop. Her niece, Megan Pencarrow, transferred nearby, and was recently promoted to the rank of detective sergeant. Perhaps the only downside is that she is now working for a DI who doesn't approve of women on the police force and who really doesn't much approve of Megan's aunt Eleanor, as she is something of a thorn in his rather substantial side. All of these factors collide when, the day after collecting donations, Eleanor and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a long-haired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, and the haul from a violent robbery in London. Making matters more complex, the corpse found in the storeroom is apparently not one of the robbers. Carola Dunn's Manna from Hades is a confounding Cornish case of daring theft, doublecross, and a wily older woman confronted by a case of murder most foul. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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