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Title: A Place of Hiding by ELIZABETH GEORGE ISBN: 0-553-80130-9 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (70 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Secrets
Comment: Cherokee Rivers talks his sister China into accompanying him to the island of Guernsey to hand deliver a parcel.He is being paid to act as a courier for an architect to personally deliver plans to Guy Brouard, a very rich man who intends to build a war museum, commemorating the island's inhabitants courageous stand against the German occupation of Guernsey during WW2.Brouard is murdered after an early morning swim and the local police arrest China, who was seen following Brouard to the beach that morning. Cherokee flies to London to enlist the help of old friend Deborah St.James and her husband Simon, a forensic scientist. Deborah refuses to believe that her friend is guilty and she and Simon begin to unravel a most convoluted web of lies, deceit and greed. It's a big read with mant threads weaving in and out and if you enjoy an involved story of many facets, you'll love this one.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice but unremarkable page turner
Comment: I'm a huge Elizabeth George fan and I've read all her mysteries. I was very excited to have a new book by her to read. I did enjoy this new story - she didn't disappoint with her interesting suspects, unusual locale (Guernsey), and attention-catching backstory of the siblings who lost everything in the Holocaust. I looked forward to getting back to the book each day and was actually sorry it was over. I thought her sort of circular storytelling was a good variation for her, something a little different in a mystery.
The thing was, I was sorry that her usual lead characters of Barbara Havers (whom I ADORE and who doesn't appear) and Inspector Lynley (who appears extremely briefly as Acting Superintendent) were not in the lead in this one. I try so hard to be interested in Deborah and Simon but I find them lukewarm characters. In this book it kept seeming like something fairly major was going to come of the discussion of Simon's disability and the age difference between the two, but nothing really did. Simon had a revelation about the way he treats Deborah (since he remembers her as a child and young adult whom he had to look out for) but..? That wasn't a very satisfying revelation. I enjoyed this book and there's much worse out there when it comes to what you can pick up to read, but I hope the next book will star Barbara again and be deeper and more tightly woven. Of all her mysteries I don't think the author has topped "Playing for the Ashes" yet and that's from years ago now.
Rating: 3
Summary: No more Deborah
Comment: A Place of Hiding was, as always with Elizabeth George novels, intriguing. The plot was well developed and the pace exciting. The mystery kept me guessing until near the end.
However, the sections with Deborah and St. James were extremely difficult to read. Deborah was developed here as a childish, whining, irresponsible and boring ninny. The mystery is how did she ever get Inspector Lynley and St. James to fall in love with her? She was immature and annoying: doing ridiculous things and whining when her husband took issue with her often dangerous actions.
I loved the story, enjoyed so much about it but will never buy another George novel that has Deborah as anything more than a bit player.
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Title: The Murder Room by P.D. JAMES ISBN: 1400041414 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Now May You Weep: A Novel by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0060525231 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Foul Matter by Martha Grimes ISBN: 067003259X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery by RUTH RENDELL ISBN: 140004930X Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: I, Richard by ELIZABETH GEORGE ISBN: 055338242X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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