ISBN: 978-0755108855
This was surprisingly fab. I am a dedicated reader of Heyers Regency Romances (who isn’t? – my hubby like Infamous Army and I love him the more for it!!! ) . Due to Regency love I put off reading her thrilers until reaching this advanced age – what a mistake to make!! This book is a mildly demented mix of Agatha Christie and Jane Austen – brilliant stuff…
Plot: Dope: There is a neat drugs sub plot
Rope: Well wire actually – the instrument of death
Hope: Wronged woman – righted
Characters: Brilliant Detective. Fab heroes and Heroines and wonderfully souless side characters who you are always hoping will be gruesomely bumped off.
What to love: Really rather lovely characters. Humourously drawn – by turns gentle and quite wicked. Heyers gift for the cruel caricature is used to its upmost.
What to loathe: Hideously casual homophobia – fairly typical off the time but quite jarring to read. Sort of jolts you out of the book and sympathy with the characters.
Buy, Borrow or Bin: Buy – Really very good – and worth reading again even when you know who has done it.
If this book was a drink it would be: Home made spicy hot chocolate – mostly lovely but sometimes you end up drinking the nasty dregs and it can spoil your love for the whole.
On the Georgette Heyer Site
