The Stargazey, Martha Grimes
The Stargazey, Martha Grimes
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The Stargazey

Author: Martha Grimes

Narrator: Steve West

Unabridged: 13 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/27/2014


Synopsis

Saturday night. It was not a night to be spending alone, riding a bus. When he was a teenager at the comprehensive, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least your mates to raise hell with, Saturday night alone would have been shameful. One wouldn’t want to be seen alone on a Saturday night…. Who are you kidding? That was never your life, Jury, not yours.

About Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, twenty-five of them featuring Richard Jury. The recipient of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by K.B. on May 15, 2012

As always, for me, Melrose outshines all the other characters.......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on December 27, 2007

Although they operate on the level of mystery, all Martha Grimes novels are also parodies. This one goes after noir -- cherchez la blonde in sable -- with a little bit of Nick and Nora Charles thrown in. Part Hitchcock, part Dashiell Hammett. Grimes is always more fun when she's having fun.......more

Goodreads review by Johnny on February 10, 2011

While I am a fan of the Richard Jury series, I have to confess that this mystery was the most improbable and disjointed effort of the series. While I wasn’t surprised as to the murderer, I was briefly taken aback by the identity of the same. I feel like this story depended far too much on capricious......more

Goodreads review by J. Carter on May 06, 2019

Never having read a Martha Grimes mystery before I was carried along by her delight in the eccentricities and detailed lives of her characters although there was such a barage of them that at times I wanted to scream "Get back to the plot!". One after the other in rapid succession, major and minor c......more

Goodreads review by Arlene on May 19, 2010

Jury sees a woman in a sable coat on the bus. When she gets off the bus and walks a ways, then gets back on the bus, then gets off again, he follows her to the entrance to a public garden. The next day a woman is found dead in the garden wearing a sable coat. Is it the same woman? Then the coat on t......more