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The Winds of Change (2005)

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0451216962 (ISBN13: 9780451216960)
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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, having been part of a custody battle for the child and also being a known but unproven procurer of children for pedophiles. When an unidentified woman is found murdered in the garden of the stepfather of the missing child, with no clues as to the motive for her murder or evidence of the murder weapon, Inspector Jury calls in Melrose Plant to play a turf specialist in order to have him do a little undercover investigating at the house. What becomes clear towards the latter half of the book is that not only are their secrets being held by some and kept for others, but also that nothing is always as they seem.

This is a pretty good Grimes book, with Richard Jury and Melrose Plant being sardonically dapper around the countryside of Britain. I just wonder why they are asexual. They flirt with girls and Jury lusts after his house mate Carole-anne. There’s a murdered woman no one recognizes on the estate of a man who had a step daughter abducted three years earlier. Her biological father is involved in a pedophilia ring which is revealed when a little girl is shot in the streets of London, and on it goes. It is funny at times, with Melrose’s horse names Aggrieved and his goat named Aghast, and his bluffing his way in pretending to be a turf specialist to hang out at the estate. There are some nice plot twists at the end, and Jury gets to be macho to save the little girls. Nice and mellow.

What do You think about The Winds Of Change (2005)?

Having Plant serve as a gardener in this novel and in The Blue Last resembles mock allegory because of his incompetence. In this novel, the early suggestion to name the goat "Agoat" in the naming game made me laugh. In The Grave Maurice, however, naming the family of horse breeders and jockeys "Ryder" seemed silly rather than provocative or funny.
—Heidi Babcock

I was surprised to discover this Martha Grimes book on my shelf that I hadn't read. I am a big fan of her "pub" series. Although Grimes has the strolling style of a British mystery writer, I found this one to be well worth the stroll with all the usual wonderful characters but mostly Jury and Melrose. The way she organized her book with subtitles was a bit fascinating to me. And I discovered why in the very last chapter, guaranteed to fill your room with laughter. No cheating though or you won't understand the irony at the end.
—Mary

Serendipity. Synchronicity. I recently read the biography of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higgenson, and now both turn up in a murder mystery. Whoever thinks mysteries are low rent is totally wrong. Grimes is always good and this is one of her best. Jury is involved in solving the killing of a five-year old girl who was also raped. Running in tandem with this death is the death of Jury's cousin, the last of his family with whom he can share memories of his youth. The theme of death is bleak, especially because Grimes does children so well. Jury and Melrose Plant work side by side to track down the murder of a woman who is also tied to the disappearance of another child, a child who happens to be the daughter of the man who supports the use of young girls as sexual toys. All the strands come together satisfactorily though a few frayed edges are left for the mind to tinker with.
—Beth

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