Mr. Pottermack's Oversight

What a clever plot!! So charming as well. So lovely to know that even when terrible crimes are being committed, tea is still being served in the garden. Can’t wait to read more from this author, he’s magic at creating a bizarrely realistic and funny storyline.......more

When preparing his garden for the arrival of a new sundial, quiet, Mr Pottermack, a single man of late middle age who has a quiet and unremarkable existence, uncovers a previously unknown well. The same day, he receives yet another demand for money from a man who is blackmailing him, and it’s only a......more

A bit of a slog to get through with its painstaking detail. It may have ramped up the tension, although I think this tedious method of telling the story just made me anxious to get on with it! But I was pleasantly surprised that this did not go at all the way I thought it would.......more

I was presently surprised with this book. Freeman only narrates in the first person when the story is from the perspective of Jervis, Antsey, or that third guy whose name I can't remember. Whenever it's from Thorndyke's perspective or another character, it's in third person. This was no exception, a......more

Not one I'd recommend. Mr. Pottermack was less than one dimensional (and boring). The narrative was slow and plodding and filled (overstuffed) with tedious, unnecessary descriptions and explanations--often explanations of the descriptions?? An uninspired work that, perhaps, had a deadline to meet.......more