Death at the Library
A Sukey Reynolds Mystery, Book 9
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Death at the Library
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Narrated by:
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Tamsin Kennard
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By:
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Betty Rowlands
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Toasted crumpets, a country house…and a curious murder?
Sukey Reynolds is invited to an evening at her local library to hear Jennifer Cottrell, a noted novelist, speak about her latest book. But instead of an interesting event attended by the author’s fans, a woman in the audience, Wendy Downie, accuses Jennifer of killing her lover. Before a shocked Sukey can go after her, she flees into the night. The very next day, Jennifer is found dead....
The police chase after Wendy, convinced she must have attacked Jennifer. But they find that she too has been killed - in the grounds of Jennifer’s beautiful manor. Why was she at Jennifer’s house? Are all of their suspects going to disappear?
With the police running around in circles, Sukey decides to do some sleuthing on her own. Looking closely at Jennifer’s household and acquaintances, Sukey wonders who could have wanted her dead? The homely housekeeper, the gloomy groundsman, or the secretive secretary?
A dog’s lead and a pair of dirty boots direct Sukey to the truth, but will she be able to let her detective colleagues know who the culprit is, before the devious villain realises they’ve been rumbled?
A murder mystery for fans of P.D. James, Faith Martin, and Joy Ellis from the queen of cozy crime.
This book was previously published as Smokescreen.
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Apart from the absurd beginning in which the protagonist sells her house and moves because she was undergoing 6 months of training, which no one does, her whole persona changes in this book. Apart from anything else, she begins to pray in her work context, when in previous books it was clear that she had no time for religion. (I'm a pray-er, so my problem isn't that she prayed but that there's no lead up to why she would change so drastically.) In addition, the author shoe horns in the fact that she and her son go to church one day, a fact which has no relevance to the story. Her love interest is conveniently jettisoned in a totally ridiculous and sanitised way, again, with no explanation.
There are so many holes in the story that it all has to be tied up with a conversation between Sukey and her colleague at the end of the book to explain everything, in a very unsatisfactory and a 'tell don't show' manner. Nothing about the way this is written indicates the same author.
In addition, the new narrator is so upper class as to make the story difficult to relate with.
Did someone else write this book?
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