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 Pub benannt (bei den deutschen Titeln natürlich nicht mehr nachvollziehbar). Wer die Atmosphäre englischer Kleinstädte (und traditioneller Pubs) mag, muss wohl auch einmal Grimes lesen.Auferstanden von den Toten ist von 2002 und damit Band 18, von mir wahllos herausgegriffen und günstig als Taschenbuch erworben. Jury leidet an den Folgen einer Schussverletzung aus Band 17, Die Trauer trägt schwarz, und Melrose Plant muss einige der Ermittlungen in dem neuen Fall anstrengen. Nell Ryder wird mit 15 Jahren aus dem Stall eines Gestüts entführt, mit ihr zusammen eines der wertvollen Rennpferde. Zwei Jahre später ist der Fall immer noch ungelöst, irgend etwas scheint aber mit der Familie Ryder nicht zu stimmen, so dass Jurys Interesse geweckt wird. Ein Mord geschieht und die Dinge nehmen ihren dramatischen Lauf.In Teilen ist der Roman ein wenig pferdelastig, unglaubwürdig erscheint zum Beispiel Plants Kauf eines teuren Rennpferdes im Laufe der Ermittlungen - er kann kaum reiten. Andererseits ist das Treiben auf seinem Anwesen mit den schrulligen Bediensteten und in diesem Fall mit einem angestellten Eremiten (!) auch eines der Elemente, die den Charme des Romans ausmachen. Erst als Jury die Bühne betritt, nimmt die Geschichte wirklich ihren Lauf, wenngleich Plants Sichtweise auf die Geschehnisse amüsanter und interessanter sind.Solider britischer Kriminalroman mit Augenzwinkern.
I am just loving revisiting this series. The last few books have been ones I never read before, including this one. The endings can be downers at times, with serious calamities happening at the end - but Grimes is not graphic or sensational, even though the endings are sad and a bit shocking, so their relatively easy to take; and also, just part of what you need to deal with if you love mysteries.This as a very sad ending, but I won't go into more detail. While I enjoyed the book very much and am very happy to be revisiting more about Inspector Richard Jury, Melrose Plant and the rest of the repeating characters, the ending did leave me a bit sad and unsettled. Life is not a fairy tale, though, nor it is fair; the ending was just what happens some times, though we may not like it.
What do You think about The Grave Maurice (2003)?
Despite a few unsettling features, this novel continues the series with flair. Like The Deer Leap (number 7 in the series), it ends with heartbreaking events. Jury again entangles himself sexually with a crazy woman. The ludicrous Long Piddleton subplot with the hermit-for-hire makes the recurring population seem even more adolescent than usual (but it is sort of funny). Though in flashback, the repeated rapes add a horrifying dimension. Grimes adds some of her ironic, self-deprecatory observations about mystery novels, including, "Jury did not like mystery stories, especially those starring royalty, so he cut to the chase" (chapter 2), and "Melrose sighed, wishing Jury would stop talking like a cop in a bad thriller" (chapter 56). For the first time in the series, Grimes establishes the precise year of the events (January 1996), one month after the events on Christmas day at the end of The Blue Last. Naming the family deeply involved in horse breeding and racing "Ryder" suggests an allegory that the novel does not develop further.
—Curt Bobbitt
#18 in the Detective Superintendent Richard Jury of New Scotland Yard mystery series. A casual conversation overheard by Jury's friend and investigation helper in a pub turns out to be connected to a case Jury is unofficially helping out on. Recovering from a near death shooting at the end of the previous Jury mystery, The Blue Last, Jury becomes involved, the need to do something since he's unable to resume work, in a nearly two year old case of the disappearance of a 16 year old girl and a horse from her family's horse stud farm. Interesting twists and turns as Jury and Plant work their way through the mystery and various family members.
—George
She did it again - spent the entire book convincing us that Nell was such an amazing person, and then killed her off in the end, really for no other reason than dramatic effect. I mean, I get the whole "the world is cruel" thing, but is this really necessary?Otherwise the book was enjoyable, although certainly not one of my favorites. I'm not much of a horse fan so a lot of the horse talk didn't interest me much. Also, like some of her other books, I feel like the plots are so convoluted, with m
—Kallierose
