Death at Bishop's Keep

This was fun. I debated a bit between three and four stars, but in the end I rounded up. For two reasons, I was sold on the characters, and this is how I like my convention flouting. Seriously, it's kind of great. Our heroine has more modern attitudes, but for reasons that make complete sense given he......more

I've said before that I think the first book in a detective series has a very tough job to do. It's got to establish character and history, it's got to set out the author's logical credentials as a mystery writer, there needs to be Atmosphere, and - these days - it also needs to set up some form of......more