| Title | : | Long Time Dead (The Iphigenia Black Series #2) |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published June 8, 2012 |
A nice little town somewhere in America. A seafront funfair, a deserted ancestral home, a shoppe for “Things ye Neede”, a Lovers’ Lane and an ancient Indian burial ground. What could possibly go wrong? Iffie thought she had found the perfect place to go to ground and lick her wounds. After all, nothing ever happens in a place like that – at least not in “real life”.
But Iffie forgot that she doesn’t exactly live a “real life.” She’s hardly knocked the dust off her boots when she has a visitor suffering from a nasty case of being dead. A long time dead.
However Iffie gets straight on the case and soon sorts it all out …
Ooops! Eternity just got a whole lot longer.
Long Time Dead (The Iphigenia Black Series #2) Reviews
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Another triumph in the Black Chronicles. Long Time Dead has everything anybody could ask for. Magic, derring-do, time travel, unrequited love, all wrapped up in Nicola Rhodes unique blend of disparate traditional mythologies woven seamlessly & wittily together, with her own fictional additions, creating at the end, an artifact of storytelling in style which is entirely her own.
I was gripped by the story from the very beginning. Then taken on a roller-coaster ride through curiosity, adventure, adversity, set-backs & reversals of fate, to a most satisfying conclusion. Eminently readable, the pacing was well judged, the characetrs sympathetic & believable. The wit of the prose containing an almost mordant humour at times. But maintaining a delicately judged light tone despite some very dark themes, without trivialising those themes.
Nicola Rhodes narrative powers continue to go from strength to strength. I have read all of her work & of the dozen novels she's published this is my favourite.
It is by far the best new work I have read this year, & have no reservations about recommending it unreservedly.
