Post by janetandjohn on Apr 14, 2017 19:42:31 GMT
I loved this. I couldn't put it down, and read it in a day. Has just the right amount of mystery that keeps you reading, and the ending is just right too.
In the weeks approaching D-Day, 1944, Wareham in Dorset is full of Amerian soldiers. The Second World War is in full flow. London is being bombed and people are tired. When two bodies are discovered near the coast it seems likely that they are old bodies, and they are likely to be the result of an old quarry accident. That is, until Mary Holmes walks into the local police station and states that she knows about the bodies and she killed them both. She's over eighty, and the Sargeant asks a young policeman to take her statement. She tells a long and meandering tale, and it may not even be true. And whilst William, the war damaged constable listens to Mary, he is thinking. For he too has a tale to tell and it is tearing him apart.
Set on the Isle of Purbeck, Kavanagh has got everything so right. The village names, the geography, even the names of businesses in town (Frisby's shoes, for goodness sake!). She has a style that is easy to read, involves you staight away, and produces empathy for both the leading characters. A real page turner, a short of old-fashioned thriller (no serial murders or drugged wives here!), so good that I'd recommend it it anyone who enjoys a read a little off the mainstream.
[copy of my Amazon Vine review]
In the weeks approaching D-Day, 1944, Wareham in Dorset is full of Amerian soldiers. The Second World War is in full flow. London is being bombed and people are tired. When two bodies are discovered near the coast it seems likely that they are old bodies, and they are likely to be the result of an old quarry accident. That is, until Mary Holmes walks into the local police station and states that she knows about the bodies and she killed them both. She's over eighty, and the Sargeant asks a young policeman to take her statement. She tells a long and meandering tale, and it may not even be true. And whilst William, the war damaged constable listens to Mary, he is thinking. For he too has a tale to tell and it is tearing him apart.
Set on the Isle of Purbeck, Kavanagh has got everything so right. The village names, the geography, even the names of businesses in town (Frisby's shoes, for goodness sake!). She has a style that is easy to read, involves you staight away, and produces empathy for both the leading characters. A real page turner, a short of old-fashioned thriller (no serial murders or drugged wives here!), so good that I'd recommend it it anyone who enjoys a read a little off the mainstream.
[copy of my Amazon Vine review]
