Gena S. (SouthernDestiny) -
A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury--until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm, and a bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging holiday spirit. But the next time Jury saw her, she was cold--and dead. Melrose Plant. Jury's aristocratic sidekick wasn't faring much better. Snow bound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics, and idle-but-titled rich, he, too, encountered a lovely lady . . . or rather, stumbled over her corpse. What linked these two yuletide murders was a remote country pub where snooker, a Nativity scene, and an old secret would uncover a killer . . . or yet another death.
Scotland Yard's Richard Jury meets a beautiful woman in a graveyard. He and Melrose Plant, along with other characters become snowbound and have to solve 2 murders.
Its a white Christmas in Newcastle for Scotland Yards Richard Jury, until he meets a beautiful woman in a snow covered graveyard. The next time he meets her, she is dead. He meets up with sidekick, Melrose Plant, at a mansion and stumbles over another copse. The two murders, he soon learns, are related.
A typical workman-like mystery of this middle part of Grimes's series. Her more recent books are more imaginative and emotionally rich.
Besides writing a good mystery, Martha Grimes gives such good descriptions of England that I want to return. Her characters' humor is just right for easing the seriousness of the crimes.
If you like Agatha Christie, you're gonna LOVE this one!
love her stories
Loved this one! It's a great Melrose Plant book.
I adore Martha Grimes books but I do NOT CARE for the Richard Jury series at all! ugh!
I sincerely enjoyed the whole series of these books. Light mysteries but no gore. Each book is named after a particular pub in england and you have fun discovering the different characters that inhabit these pubs.
Loved it. Classic Richard Jury.
Richard Jury at his best!
