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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) by Sarah Hawkswood (Sept/Oct 25)
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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) - SPOILER Thread - (Sept/Oct 25)
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Appleby Talking is Appleby talking the whole time about his cases, some in the course of his work, some in unexpected encounters with characters bent on crime. Though most of them are too short, all are entertaining, with those ridiculous names and interesting motives.Lessons in Anatomy and Dead Man's Shoes are particularly good.
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This book is a collection of short stories, all featuring Appleby relating one of his cases to friends (usually the Vicar and the Doctor). Interestingly many of them do not feature murder. They do all share that sense of the slightly bizarre or fantastic for which Innes has such a flair :)
It has been several years since I last read any of the Appleby books - I had finished all the ones I own and was finding the later books in the series increasingly difficult to get from the library. So when I s ...more
It has been several years since I last read any of the Appleby books - I had finished all the ones I own and was finding the later books in the series increasingly difficult to get from the library. So when I s ...more
