A Grave in the Cotswolds (Thea Osborne, Bk 8)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
My Fav candy, I mean author. That's it! Author! I love Rebecca Tope and her Cotswold series. This is book 8 and I think I have given every book before this one a 5 stars. I just couldn't do it this time, but it is still a good read and worth having and reading in the whole set.
One of the things Tope has done once previously, in this series, and yet again in this book, is that instead of seeing and hearing all things from Thea's prospective, we hear it from another character entirely. I am not fond of that. I came for Thea, the main character that I have grown to love and know over the years.
There aren't too many more books left in the series either, so I want to hear more from my fav character and her fluffy Spaniel.
This book is told from Drew Slocombe's prospective. Perhaps it was smart for the author to do this as I had not read her other series called, "The West Country Mysteries". Drew comes from those books, so in order to introduce us to him, she incorporates him here and the rest is history. I now know who Drew is, what he is like, what he does for a living and I look forward to starting that series as well.
Onto the review. A Grave in the Cotswolds takes place in March, in the early Spring. Our Drew Slocombe is in the Cotswolds to bury a customer he had only just met and worked out burial details a few days previous with. Drew is an undertaker, so seeing things from an undertakers view can be very interesting and enlightening to say the least.
A man from the area comes and verbally attacks Drew about the burial that has just been preformed in a field in which he believes the council has rights to. This man is an angry, ugly and pompous fellow whom Drew wishes would just go drop dead. That is exactly what happens. Since Drew verbally allowed it known that he hated the old chap, now he is suspect Numero UNO!
It is up to Drew and Thea to change the police's and the village people's minds, that he could do NO such thing. His job is burying people, not murdering then burying them.
I felt totally disconnected from Thea, but this is told from Drew's point, so it was interesting to see Thea from an outsiders prospective. Kind of liked it, kind of didn't. The story has more pages than it needed. More descriptions, more conversations than required for us, the reader, to understand.
I also would much rather have seen things from Thea's view point, instead of some strange guy popping up in book 8 blabbing the story to us.
I did like the book, but I did not enjoy it the way I have the others from the past. I came for Thea, her dog Hepzie and the house sitting in the Cotswolds. That is what draws me to these stories, so I feel I missed out on a Cotswold tale for a book that should have been in the "West Country Mysteries" series.
One of the things Tope has done once previously, in this series, and yet again in this book, is that instead of seeing and hearing all things from Thea's prospective, we hear it from another character entirely. I am not fond of that. I came for Thea, the main character that I have grown to love and know over the years.
There aren't too many more books left in the series either, so I want to hear more from my fav character and her fluffy Spaniel.
This book is told from Drew Slocombe's prospective. Perhaps it was smart for the author to do this as I had not read her other series called, "The West Country Mysteries". Drew comes from those books, so in order to introduce us to him, she incorporates him here and the rest is history. I now know who Drew is, what he is like, what he does for a living and I look forward to starting that series as well.
Onto the review. A Grave in the Cotswolds takes place in March, in the early Spring. Our Drew Slocombe is in the Cotswolds to bury a customer he had only just met and worked out burial details a few days previous with. Drew is an undertaker, so seeing things from an undertakers view can be very interesting and enlightening to say the least.
A man from the area comes and verbally attacks Drew about the burial that has just been preformed in a field in which he believes the council has rights to. This man is an angry, ugly and pompous fellow whom Drew wishes would just go drop dead. That is exactly what happens. Since Drew verbally allowed it known that he hated the old chap, now he is suspect Numero UNO!
It is up to Drew and Thea to change the police's and the village people's minds, that he could do NO such thing. His job is burying people, not murdering then burying them.
I felt totally disconnected from Thea, but this is told from Drew's point, so it was interesting to see Thea from an outsiders prospective. Kind of liked it, kind of didn't. The story has more pages than it needed. More descriptions, more conversations than required for us, the reader, to understand.
I also would much rather have seen things from Thea's view point, instead of some strange guy popping up in book 8 blabbing the story to us.
I did like the book, but I did not enjoy it the way I have the others from the past. I came for Thea, her dog Hepzie and the house sitting in the Cotswolds. That is what draws me to these stories, so I feel I missed out on a Cotswold tale for a book that should have been in the "West Country Mysteries" series.
