Waterstones Murder In The Afternoon
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail Dead one minute Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they scarper quick smart and look for some help. Alive the next? When help arrives, however, the quarry is deserted and there is no sign of the body. Were the children mistaken? Is their father not dead? Did he simply get up and run away?A sinister disappearing act. It seems like another unusual case requiring the expertise of Kate Shackleton. But for Kate this is one case where surprising family ties makes it her most dangerous - and delicate - yet. Praise for the Kate Shackleton series:' Brody's writing is like her central character Kate Shackleton: witty, acerbic and very, very perceptive' Ann Cleeves' The series is right up there with Miss Marple' Sunday Sport' Kate Shackleton is a splendid heroine' Ann Granger' Delightful' People's Friend' Frances Brody matches a heroine of free and independent spirit with a vivid evocation of time and place. a novel to cherish' Daily Mail. Waterstones Murder In The Afternoon - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780749954871
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ISBN: 9780749954871
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Author: B A Woodliffe
Rating: 5
Review: Love these stories set around Yorkshire.
Author: JJ
Rating: 3
Review: Despite giving this three stars, I’d read the next Kate Shackleton books. As others have said they are a bit slow moving but the characters are likeable and it builds to a decent climax at the end. A young girl and her brother walk to the local quarry to deliver lunch to their father. The girl finds him lying in a workers hut. She knows he is dead. She takes her brother and rushes for help to the nearest farm. By the time they all get back to the quarry the body has gone. As days go by the feeling is he was not dead, maybe drunk and when he came too he up and left the area. After all he was a good stone mason, could get a job anywhere and wasn’t he always arguing with his wife anyway. If he is dead they will look to his wife who was seen heading to the quarry earlier in the day. His wife, Mary Jane has a secret weapon in her defence, Kate Shackleton. She goes to Kate to tell her she must find Ethan, her husband and she will do this because she is Kate’s sister. From this you know Kate was adopted (mentioned in other books). She does not know her birth family and had not really been curious. But she is now! Most of the book concerns Kate’s feelings about this new family and getting to know the children and the locals in her investigation. Her partner in crime Jim Sykes gives a more determined effort to uncover clues, I like him. As the dead man was a ‘trouble making’ trade unionist Scotland Yard is involved and this brings Marcus Charles (Kate’s erstwhile lover) into the fray. Another layer in the story is how committed is Kate to the affair. She still looks in hospitals for her husband, missing presumed dead at the end of the war, and she is worried Marcus will ask her to marry him and she really doesn’t want to settle into being a wife, with all the connotations that brings for women at that time. The stories have potential but need to build up a bit more tension. Kate is likeable and can be quite funnily sarcastic (in her own thoughts), Sykes is a good character and her adoptive parents are quite strongly drawn.
