Brown (Murder Most Vile) and Brooke (Harmony) offer a compelling genre blend of hard science fiction and murder mystery that will appeal to fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Peter F. Hamilton.
Despite a few clichés, this latest series outing, set in the 1950s (after Murder Take Three), offers an entertaining locked-room mystery with an ingenious murder device that will appeal to fans of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and other Golden Age crime fiction.
When a film actress asks private detective Donald Langham to come to her Norfolk film set to investigate threats against her director—and lover—he sees it as a chance to spend time with his fiancée Maria Dupre...
This charming book, which follows Murder at the Chase, brings to the page well-defined characters and a classic locked-room structure. Recommend for anyone who loves English country house murders.
Brown's charming English locked-room mystery (after Murder by the Book) features a well-crafted and exciting plot and two attractive protagonists who epitomize a postwar English generation willing to reach across class lines. For readers who enjoy classic Golden Age mysteries.