Styx
and Stones
Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, No 7
by Carola Dunn
Aristocratic sleuth Daisy Dalrymple is
back for a seventh case in this entertaining series, this time in
rural Kent. Her brother-in-law, Lord John Frobisher, enlists her
help when he starts receiving poison pen letters regarding a long
ago misdemeanor. He thinks that other people in the village have
been receiving them too, and can she investigate? Nothing looks
more innocent than visiting her own sister and her family in company
with her step-daughter-to-be, Belinda, but before she has done much
investigating, she finds a body... in the churchyard!
Poison pen letters, villages full of gossip, tea at the vicarage...
this couldn’t be more cozy if it tried and in a classic Agatha Christie
style too. You will have to put on the kettle and make tea to drink
while you read this! Ms Dunn does this style of thing very well,
with plenty of period detail and a good underpinning of historical
knowledge. It’s perfectly paced, and I didn’t guess it, although
I did feel that the ending was a little rushed - a fault of this
writer in some of her other books. But this minor fault did not
detract from the enjoyable whole, and this remains a historical
cozy series of which I am particularly fond. If you like this sort
of thing at all, then this gets it all spot on.
Reviews of other titles in this series
Death
at Wentwater Court, 1
The
Winter Garden Mystery, 2
Requiem
For A Mezzo, 3
Murder
on the Flying Scotsman, 4
Damsel
in Distress, 5
Dead
In The Water, 6
Styx
and Stones, 7
Rattle His Bones, 8 [review
1] [review
2]
To
Davy Jones Below, 9
The
Case of the Murdered Muckraker, 10
Mistletoe
and Murder, 11
Die
Laughing, 12
A
Mourning Wedding, 13
Fall
of a Philanderer, 14
Gunpowder
Plot, 15
The
Black Ship, 17
Sheer
Folly, 18
Anthem
For Doomed Youth, 19
Gone
West, 20 |
The Book |
Kensington
Mystery |
November
2002 |
Paperback |
157566755X |
Historical
Crime - 1923 Kent, England |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel
A Hyde |
Reviewed
2007 |
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