Janet B. (JannyB) - , reviewed The Devil's Highway (Robert Fairfax, Bk 2) on + 162 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I enjoyed this mystery set in 1761 England. Robert Fairfax is a likeable and believable character. Interesting plot. Well worth the time to read!
Helpful Score: 1
A good mystery of the Regency era. No romance, just mystery with an interesting, well-drawn protagonist.
Helpful Score: 1
An Edwardian suspense story features a tenacious tutor who does not get to work because he is seeking clues to a mysterious series of murders and too many suspects. How to solve the murders? how to unravel the hidden connections among the wealthy families, zealot preacher, and the placid fronts of the townspeople and the gentry who have secrets to keep? He and his reclacitrant mare reach an uneasy truce; he learns to ride whilst plodding across the countryside asking questions until he flushes out the quarry. A low key but increasingly tense mystery with an unexpected finale.
Christopher M. (gilesgoatboy) reviewed The Devil's Highway (Robert Fairfax, Bk 2) on + 60 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Readers who enjoyed Bruce Alexander's outstanding Sir John Fielding series will rejoice in going back to the same era and reading this new series featuring Robert Fairfax, the half-English half-French tutor who, in his first position found himself obliged to defend his 19 yr. old pupil from a charge of murder. After those events, he now becomes embroiled in investigating the apparently brutal triple homicides of the driver and passengers of a public provincial northbound coach, presumed to be the work of a local area highwayman.
Hannah March captures the character of the period and presents a well-rendered gallery of rogues, villains and some vixens to rouse, then hold, her readers' interest.
Note: Other reviewers have incorrectly referred to this series as "Regency" or even worse "Edwardian" while it is, in fact, neither. It is quite clearly Georgian which is a good two centuries before Edwardian which began the twentieth century. Think "Tom Jones" or "Moll Flanders" and that will give a more accurate picture of the times described in this series.
Hannah March captures the character of the period and presents a well-rendered gallery of rogues, villains and some vixens to rouse, then hold, her readers' interest.
Note: Other reviewers have incorrectly referred to this series as "Regency" or even worse "Edwardian" while it is, in fact, neither. It is quite clearly Georgian which is a good two centuries before Edwardian which began the twentieth century. Think "Tom Jones" or "Moll Flanders" and that will give a more accurate picture of the times described in this series.
Thomas F. (hardtack) -
Helpful Score: 1
The first book in this series was so good I immediately requested two of the others. This one is just as good as the first and is loaded with red herrings.
