Understated entertainment.
A wee slice of life in the English countryside just after WWII. All the silly and irrelevant gossip that acts as the sole diversion of Puddledown is driven into a frenzy when a most singular event occurs--MURDER.
Nice cast of characters that would easily support future jaunts through the woods and down the main street of Puddledown. Hugo is a man burdened by never having served and questioning himself on more than one point. Tommy is the new groundskeeper of the neighboring estate and second witness to the gruesome finding.
What unravels is a cozy mystery with just enough gore to shock one's sensibilities. A madman on the loose and Hugo is determined to find out whom is responsible. Secrets are revealed and lives changed. A fun whodunit to laze away part of an afternoon reading. Off to Book 2.
Favorite quote:
Such men— such strong, virile men— had neither time nor patience for pallid, bookish types, who pinned all their hopes on two lines of Greek, illicitly translated when they had been forbidden from doing so.
3.5 Stars
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