Ron K. (WhidbeyIslander) - , reviewed on 2/6/2009 + 688 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

An easy read, with lots of sex, and an English country home murder mystery that in the end left me a little confused about people's motives. The book I read just before this was Farthing by Jo Walton, which is an English country home murder mystery set in an alternative-history England. This too, is sort of set in an alternative-history England -- one in which just about every man is young, hot, handsome and ready to have sex with every other man they meet. It's amazing how the country survived with so few hterosexual men to repopulate it.

(Note: a small quibble -- when the hero meets the constable (who is young, hot, handsome and ready to have sex with him) he mentions that the bobby likes his American accent, and might not have heard the real thing before since "talking pictures had not yet arrived" in the place the murder occurs. But since the book is set in 1925, talking pictures hadn't even really arrived in Hollywood, either, so that's an editorial error that should have been caught.)

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