Death in Disguise - Couverture souple

Graham, Caroline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933397691 ISBN 13 : 9781933397696

Editeur : Felony & Mayhem, 2007

Synopsis

The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune's leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. In trying to solve those murders, Chief Inspector Barnaby is less excited than exasperated. The residents of the Windhorse commune may have been seeking the simple life, but they're all concealing complicated pasts'or past lives. As in Death of a Hollow Man, Graham is at her most gleeful when skewering the eccentricities of a closed community, and no one survives unscathed.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

A mystery of which Agatha Christie would have been proud. . . A beautifully written crime novel (The Times)

Tension builds, bitchery flares, resentment seethes . . . lots of atmosphere, colourful characters and fair clues (Mail on Sunday)

Everyone gets what they deserve in this high-class mystery (Sunday Telegraph)

A witty, well-plotted, absolute joy of a book (Yorkshire Post)

A treat . . . haunting stuff (Woman's Realm)

Wickedly acid, yet sympathetic (Publishers Weekly)

Swift, tense and highly alarming (TLS)

Lots of excellent character sketches . . . and the dialogue is lively and convincing (Independent)

Hard to praise highly enough (The Sunday Times)

Her books are not just great whodunits but great novels in their own right (Julie Burchill)

Enlivened by a very sardonic wit and turn of phrase, the narrative drive never falters (Birmingham Post)

Read her and you'll be astonished . . . very sexy, very hip and very funny (Scotsman)

The mystery is intriguing, the wit shafts through like sunlight . . . do not miss this book (Family Circle)

One to savour (Val McDermid)

Présentation de l'éditeur

When the death up at the big house is announced to the village of Compton Dando, few are surprised. Given that it's the home of an unlikely bunch of New Age oddballs, perhaps it was a only a matter of time before one of them came to a bad end. The verdict: an accident.

But only weeks later, another death is reported, and this time there's no doubt about it - it's murder. To Chief Inspector Barnaby, hurriedly summoned to the scene, it is immediately apparent that the case is far from straightforward, the suspects being among the most bizarre he has ever encountered...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Felony & Mayhem
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933397691
• ISBN 13: 9781933397696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible