I don't really know why I persist with this series. The hero is an annoying emasculated vacuum who drips around inspecting his own belly-button until the solution basically falls into his lap. There always seem to be small children around without appropriate adult supervision - quite often witho...
Spoiler: the precocious little girl doesn't get killed. I don't really know why I keep reading this series... except, I've known Jury and Plant and Wiggins and Carol Ann so long that, even at their most annoying, they're family. They're not very annoying in this one, and there are two bonus anima...
Watch your back Hiaasen! Why? Well, Martha Grimes has taken a brief trip to Florida and in has caressed the Everglades in her wonderful style of humor. If you're reading this and think, oh it's a Florida book, you'd be wrong, and it was cruel of me to mislead you. This wonderful book is about...
Why is an American author trying to write mystery novels about a Scotland Yard detective? The whole thing is bizarrely derivative, like bad fanfiction ("bad" because any decent fanfic writer from the U.S. who penned a mystery set in England would get a beta reader to "Britpick" it, i.e., flag an...
This classic mystery in the New York Times bestselling series finds Jury joining forces with a hot-tempered constable to track down the brutal killer of three children. Reissue.
I've been, along with Mom, culling out very old mystery series and rereading before donating. I'm beginning to think I should skip the rereading point. Either the first three attempts at this were just bad luck or you really can't go home again, I'm not sure which. I do like Richard Jury. This on...
"Depressed about his life or, more accurately, lack of one, Jury takes some time off and ends up in Bronte country. After more or less stalking an attractive woman through the Bronte Museum and the Children� s Toy Museum, ashamed of himself, Jury heads for his lodgings at The Old Silent Inn. Ther...
When the woman with whom Richard Jury is engaged in a passionate affair is found dead of a barbiturate overdose in her flat, it seems that Jury's famously bad luck with women has reached its nadir. Since the death is considered "suspicious," Scotland Yard investigates, and since, because of his r...
Part of the Richard Jury series, Inspector Jury is called to help solve the homicide of a young child shot in the back. During his investigations, he is drawn to another case of a young girl gone missing for 3 years and her mother's death 6 months after her disappearance. The father is suspected,...
Note: Although this is Book 15 in the series, it works fine as a stand alone.The book opens on a cold night with an assassin in waiting. She has a been of a clean up to do as someone saw something they weren’t suppose to while she was on a job. From this brief prologue, we jump into Richard Jury’...
The prequel to this book, Hotel Paradise, is one of my favorite, read-over-and-over books. Unfortunately, it seems Grimes hadn't even read it recently before writing this. The first few chapters contradict previous events so many times I wanted to scream in frustration. It also seems to have lost...
And I wonder: why is it that a growing thing that springs up of its own accord and in surprising places must be "just a weed"?The creepy truth is some poor cooked to death egg on its moon walks. Impatient photographers hung around the edges and they were sorry inside the lines. I never saw it any...
(Note:It's a minor spoiler, but if you plan to read the book,might want to skip my last paragraph)I've always had a love-hate relationship with Martha Grimes.I love the Richard Jury series, and I have all of them.But, unlike the Women's Murder Club books or Stephanie Plum books,which I can read i...
In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with—the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavat...
Richard Jury returns to the back streets and back rooms of London in "The New York Times" bestselling series When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not sure what's more perplexing: the circumstances of the fellow's death, the conflict...
I enjoy Martha Grimes' mysteries up to a point. I get tired of hearing about the same large group of people who live in the same little village, along with all of their quirks (her regular cast of characters). It's just too much and too cute. I like it when Richard Jury does most of the work, wit...
4th Richard Jury. I love her characterizations of children and dogs/cats, but her dialogue in "West Virginian" left a lot to be desired. Still, a good mystery."Superintendent Richard Jury of New Scotland Yard is visiting a friend in Stratford-on-Avon and hoping for an encounter with the intriguin...
"Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard seems to constantly be meeting beautiful women to whom he is instantly attracted, but the attraction never goes anywhere. The women never stick. That's true again in Jerusalem Inn, but at least this time the beautiful woman has a good reason for not p...
This is the first novel in Martha Grimes’ long-running British police procedural series featuring Richard Jury and Melrose Plant. The book was originally published in 1981 so the reader must realize from the outset that there will be no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no pocke...
Well, in a very, very long series such as Martha Grimes' Richard Jury, I guess we can't expect every entry to be a winner. This one was a bit of a letdown, which actually surprised me because it started out as if it would be very entertaining, but somewhere around the two-thirds mark, it seemed t...
22 Inspektor-Jury-Romane hat Martha Grimes inzwischen verfasst, außerdem zahlreiche andere Krimis. Inspektor Jury und die übrigen Charaktere, die ihn begleiten, sind britisch durch und durch. Faszinierende Trivia: Jeder Band der Inspektor Jury Reihe ist nach einem real existierenden englischen Pu...
"Prose seems to be falling off just a bit," said Jury..."Definitely fallen off," said Jury, yawning.Yes, even Superintendent Richard Jury seems to acknowledge it in this Martha Grimes cozy mystery. The prose has definitely fallen off. Fallen off a cliff, in fact.When I commit to reading a book, I...
The bestselling author of the Richard Jury novels delivers a razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing. And the praise is pouring in:"A hilarious and wicked caper-adventure on the evils of the book business." —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Does laughing uncontrollab...
4 stars because I loved some of these characters so much. You really need to suspend your feelings of disbelief. Two girls, ages 14 and probably 16, take off on a road trip to track down the guy who kidnapped Andi, the 16-year-old girl. Neither girl has their license but they manage to drive ove...
Rating: 3.5 starsThis is the first time I've read Martha Grimes, so I really didn't know what to expect. It's about 10% mystery and 90% character-driven. The story takes place in a small New England town where several women have been murdered in a similar fashion. This mystery, however, isn't...
The bizarre incident of the death in the call box explained, Ashdown was returning to its daily rounds, with Ida Dotrice filling in at the post-office stores. Thus Jury knew that Constable Pasco was merely indulging the superintendent’s whim. If he wanted to waste his time in the overcrowded cott...
asked Jury. Nils Anders looked across the top of his bourbon and smiled. “I told you she wasn’t much on details.” Nils had been holding on to a table for them, by the time Jury arrived at the restaurant. Holding on for dear life it would have to be, judging by the crowd both sitting and standing....
as they called it in the Windy Run. Jude Stemple lived back there. It was Jude Stemple who’d made the comment that Fern Queen had never had any kids. If he was right, then the Girl could not have been Fern’s daughter. But the people at the Windy Run Diner hinted at another view of Fern. The last ...
"You?" "Me. The son's the type who'd tear the wings off Clouded Yellows and lovebirds." They had come to the landing. "When I came round the house—" Melrose stopped. It wasn't because of some sense of honor that he refused to tell of the peccadilloes of others; the reason (he told himself) that h...