by Simone St. James
An Inquiry into Love and Death by Simone St. James After her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must rive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, unsettling incidents - a book left in a co...
So, this cover is so gorgeous (and, fortuitously fills one of my last remaining bingo squares) that I couldn't resist buying it a few years ago. And there it languished, on my kindle, in a TBR pile that would reach halfway 'round the world. But a comment from Hooked on Books, and the need to fill a ...
Boy howdy can St. James write a ghost story! I love this book; I woke up at 6.30 this morning and did nothing until I finished it and then I re-read a few passages just to make it last longer. In 1920's England, Oxford student Jillian Leigh's uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fa...
So The Haunting of Maddy Clare, St. James' first book, is still my most favorite of hers but this one was good too. Maddy Clare was just a lot more creepier I thought, which I like. The more creepier it is, the more I like it and Maddy was one hell of a ghost. This story though focused on the two...
An Inquiry Into Love and Death was another paranormal mystery/historical romance novel by Simone St. James, and while I enjoyed it, I didn't find it to be nearly as good as The Haunting of Maddy Clare. Everything that I found to be spectacular in The Haunting of Maddy Clare was much more subdued in...
The frequent references to Inspector Merriken's "sleek muscles" and his "particular animal grace" reminded me of Seth Starkadder.
3.5/5 StarsI didn't love this book as much as I loved her first book.I found the characters in this one to be A TINY bit more bland and didn't find myself as engrossed as previously mentioned. Now, will that stop me from reading more from this author. Absolutely not. I still enjoyed the book immense...
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It didn't have the pervasive spookiness of The Haunting of Maddy Clare, but it's still a good creepy mystery with a healthy dose of the paranormal. The middle dragged a tad for me, but overall, not bad at all. And I loved the ending - a romance with an ending that's...
A spectacularly atmospheric mystery and ghost story, set in post-WWI England. The story and characters are worthy of being compared with the Bess Crawford/Ian Rutledge books by Charles Todd, which is pretty much the highest recommendation I can give to a book in this genre.It is 1924, and 22-year ol...
This is one of those murder mysteries that keeps you guessing till the very end. I had my suspicions about everybody in Rothewell, much like the oh so fleetingly handsome Inspector Merriken, but I can't say I predicted any of the events that took place as the pieces of the puzzle were coming togethe...
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