The characters in this second installment of the St. Just mysteries were a bit cliched and more like caricatures than characters and there are plenty of them. I was not sure at first if I could put up with them, but once the body turned up things were back on track. It's really St. Just that I re...
Lillian Beauclerk-Fisk—Ruthven’s social-climbing wife, she mostly found murder frightfully inconvenient. Sarah Beauclerk-Fisk—fuddled and unhappy, she inherited her father’s gift for penning best-selling books. Did she inherit his mean streak, as well? Albert Beauclerk-Fisk—Sir Adrian’s youngest ...
The smell of the burning logs was restorative, a much-needed tonic to the senses. Max had just officiated at the funeral of a middle-aged man in a neighboring village, a man who had almost certainly committed suicide after a long spell of unemployment. The cause of death officially had been accid...