Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 10/10/2017 + 1031 more book reviews

Another in the old-school British mystery series featuring Miss Silver (a Miss Marple clone); doesn't matter which one since they are almost stand-alones. I confess I didn't care for this one much. Anne Jocelyn, long presumed dead as her husband tried to rescue her from Breton during WWII, shows up suddenly. Her look-alike cousin was the one who died in the firefight, she says. Husband Philip refuses to believe that, but he has his own reasons to want his wife to stay dead. I didn't find any aspect of this plot surprising, and Wentworth has a habit of making Miss Silver cough before she says anything. That gets annoying fast when there's a lot of dialog. There are characters who are meant to be disliked, but I didn't like the others either. Philip seems like a stuffed shirt, and Philip's new love is a limp jellyfish. Oh well, they can't all be classics.

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