Acquire Today Whos Sorry Now? (Grace Favor, #6) Envisioned By Jill Churchill Available Through Kindle
do have to say I like this series ever so very much, Not deep, but enjoyable. Whoever wrote the publisher's blurb seems out of contact with the book, The police chief chose to move for one thing, The multiple plot lines seemed a tad over ambitious, but each is interesting, There is the management of the mail where there is no post office and the solution found, episodes of irrational ethnic hatred, a murder, and the discovery of a body more than a hundred years old.
Plus, there are twists and surprises that make it a really interesting read, Lily and Robert get in the middle of an alleged hate crime and the murder of a kindly train porter, The local policeman is having problems with the two cases, He gets a new deputy who is very helpful in solving the cases, As with her other series, her other story lines sometimes displaces the murder story line, The difference here is I like the characters in this series a lot more than the other series, Even though the series is based on a brother and sister, this book put them more in the background this time,
I'll probably read the next of this series, when it comes out, I was a huge fan of Jill Churchill's books up for a long time, but stopped reading them, I thought she'd stopped writing, I saw this and picked it up, Not the greatest, but I might look for the others I haven't read, There's an odd sidestory about a skeleton under a bush that has nothing to do with the main plot, Lily and Robert play smaller roles in this book, I really enjoy Jill Churchill's Grace and Favor books, but haven't read nearly enough of them, LOL, I learned a lot of history just by researching some of the social situations she mentions and/or alludes to in her books.
This book was a really good read, but I did kind of wonder about the swastika mentioned in the book.
I wondered if that really would have had such an impact before WWII as after, That would be my only real criticism,
Recommended for any who enjoy mysteries set in the depression era, or anyone who loves cozies,
Blurb from Author's site sitelinkwww, cozybooks. com:
WHO'S SORRY NOW
Sister and Brother duo Lily and Robert Brewster may not have a penny to their names, but at least they are in good company.
Times are bad for the whole country in, The town's post office burned down and wasn't replaced, so the mail gets dumped off in bags by trains going up the Hudson River, and people have to rummage for their letters and packages.
When a shocked Robert hears a group of gossipy old women going through other people's mail and even threatening to destroy it, he knows something must be don.
Perhaps the kindly porter at the train station who recently help haul bags and trunks for a young woman and her newly arrived German Grandfather, would sort throught the mail in a orderly and private fashion.
But when the porter is found dead, and a red swastika is painted on the German's tailor's new shop window, Robert knows that something deeper and more sinister is going on.
Even back at Grace and Favor, the town's best handymen, Harry and Jim Harbinger, are hired to pull out some dead bushes in front of the house, a very old skeleton is is found tanlgled in the roots, which Lily finds interesting when a visiting archeologist carefully unearths it.
Robert's not happy about this, Lily doesnt figure much in this installment, and even Roberts contribution is small, The character the story dwells on most is the sheriff, Robert decides the community needs some type of post office boxes for mail to keep nosy biddies from snooping through the bags that hold everyones mail.
Meanwhile, the persecution of a newly arrived tailor from Germany, and the murder of a wellliked man keep the sheriff and his new deputy busy gathering evidence.
Its a short mystery, but still an intriguing one, set in thes, Compared to todays standard for thrillers and murder mysteries, its a much gentler but still entertaining tale, This was a decently written mystery, The characters could have been better developed, and the dialogue could have been a lot less simplistic, However, for being part of a series, I found that the book stood on its own well, Personally, I felt that the plot was a bit disjointed .
Ive enjoyed this series set just after the Great Depression, Its hard for me to imagine what life was like in this time when my grand parents would have been the ages of Lily and Robert, the young people in these books.
It was interesting to read about how people seemed to look after their neighbors, Something I believe happened more in that era than it does today,
The last chapter seems a bit rushed with a somewhat abrupt ending to the book and apparently to the series.
As far as I can tell, no book seven was printed in the series, Leuk om te lezen. Goed verhaal van een serie van boeken, Niet mijn genre dus ga ook niet meer lezen, Maar een boek was vermakelijk, This entry in Churchill's Grace amp Favor series was disappointing to me, It barely included the main characters of the series, focusing instead on the local chief of police and his new deputy solving a murder, and an attempted murder.
I read this series because of Lily Brewster and her brother Robert, but they've been featured less and less as the series went on.
There is a new title scheduled for, but I'm not sure I'll read it, After having finished this book, the only Jill Churchill I've ever read, I am astonished by the claim on its cover that she's an Agatha Award winner.
Really This book reads like it was written by ayearold, and not a particularly bright one,
Characterization Threedimension they're not, It's a stretch to say the characters are twodimensional, they're so poorly developed,
Plot The threads of the mystery are ragged, and only just barely pulled together in the last pages, in an arbitrary and uncreative way.
There are no plot twists because there's very little plot and most of it is about getting mailboxes in their small town.
Dialogue Awful, Short, choppy sentences form for lack of a better word 'conversations' that lurch awkwardly, accomplishing little, and then suddenly, . . cease.
An episode that brings all three of these weaknesses together in one inadvertently hilarious exchange occurs after the discovery of the skeleton in the yard.
Several others have commented on just how pointless this episode was, It serves absolutely no purpose, not developing characters, not progressing the plot, not a red herring, Nothing.
On the second day of the excavation, we discover that the cook hadn't yet heard the news, She comes upon the scene, and asks what's going on,
"The Harbinger boys pulled up a stump of a bush yesterday, and there was a skeletal hand sticking out of the roots.
Didn't anyone tell you"
"No, I guess I was in the kitchen baking all day, Why didn't anyone mention it over dinner"
"I don't know, . . I guess we were just too hungry to mention it, "
Wait now, There's a BODY in the yard, but it plum slipped our minds because we were HUNGRY
I'll bet you think the cook is mad with curiosity! Bet you think the questions just pour right out of her! She's probably pretty annoyed at being excluded, and totally gobsmacked that anyone could be so distracted by meatloaf and beans that they forget to mention the skeleton under the aspidistra, right Wrong.
"I'll need to go back to town to get things to make lateafternoon sandwiches for this crowd," the cook said, not sounding the least put out.
She always loved to feed a crowd,
And that, I think, sums up the book, Thintononexistent plot, awful dialogue, characters who behave like robots,
I am, however, encouraged by other reviews by readers who have read many Jill Churchill novels, Though they all agree this is a terrible book, they also all pretty much agree that her other books are much, much better.
I will be trying again, Were it not for Goodreads, I'd have given up on Ms, Churchill with this book. Now I'm only curious: why on earth would she write this How on earth did it get published
And why on earth did I finish it.