Come Death and High Water (George & Molly Palmer-Jones Book 2)
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Ann Cleeves Classic Crime – engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again
Come Death and High Water is the second mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.
The picturesque privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to be the perfect site for a murder . . .
A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner’s announcement that he is going to sell the island. A sale would mean the end of the Observatory, which for some of the birders made life worth living. A fire in Charlie Todd’s cottage added to their distress. And when, next morning, after a fierce storm, they found Charlie dead in a bird hide, their pleasant September weekend assumed a dangerous new face.
Charlie Todd’s murder could have been the deed of any member of the Trust. And it falls to one of their own, George Palmer-Jones, to unravel the identity of killer within their midst . . .
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Additional information
| Publisher | Bello, On Demand edition (15 Aug. 2013) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 3754 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 281 pages |
by Derek Saward
Nothing to add to the one line summary.
by Scoobydoo
Lots of twists. Kept me guessing to the end. Would not have suspected Jasmine! Looking forward to the next one.
by nan45
This is the second George and Molly Palmer-Jones book I’ve read, I enjoyed it as much as the first. A brilliant yarn.
by Amazon Customer
Bought as a gift
by Major Lee
Excellent read
by Amazon Customer
A book by Ann Cleeves must be a good choice. I’ve read so many others that were so skillfully written. But this was disappointing. Very clunky in comparison and rather monotonous. I did finish it as sometimes it’s good to go back before the era of mobile phones, DNA, social media and serious forensic science. But the characters were dull and I suspected early on that the dullest would be the one whodunnit.
There were irritating errors of timing. Surely an editor should spot that a sentence of dialogue isn’t enough for two men to drink a pint or even for a policeman to need a second cup of tea. The tide times got rather wayward too.
I won’t be looking for more George and Molly books.
by Peter Mercer
Hadn’t realised it was an early Ann Cleeves’ piece and clearly she was still working on her craft. The chief solver of the crime doesn’t really do anything till well on in the book
Fortunately Ann Cleeves persevered and gave us the brilliant Vera and Shetland.
by Judy M Ford
This is a competently-written whodunnit of traditional style, with a closed group of suspects, each hiding their own secrets and a police detective who is too ready to accept the obvious solution while a gifted amateur eventually unravels the mystery. The true killer is finally revealed through the age-old ploy of tempting them into attempting another murder to silence a potential witness.
It is billed as a “George and Molly Palmer-Jones” story, but George arrives late to the party and Molly hardly features, appearing as she does after almost all of the action has happened and contributing very little to the investigation. I haven’t read any other books in this series and perhaps she is more prominent in some of them. That didn’t detract from my enjoyment, but it made me wonder whether George and Molly were usually more of a partnership.
This would definitely appeal to lovers of the classic whodunnit genre.