I feel there could have been about 100 pages cut out of this one and it would have been much better. Too much page time was spent with the inhabitants of the commune and not enough with Barnaby and the investigation. The less said about Book!Sgt. Troy, the better, so I'm moving on. The tv adapta...
Having seen Midsomer Murders sporadically over the years, I decided to finally make a concerted effort to watch the show in its entirety. I'm currently in the middle of season 6, with an odd episode of later seasons thrown in here or there for good measure. (My tv has Pluto tv, and they have a dedic...
An old lady witnesses something in the woods as she's searching for an orchid. Something so terrible, someone is willing to kill her to keep it hidden. But as soon as the police is involved, thanks to the lady's nosy neighbor, more and more secrets are coming out...An interesting murder mystery with...
Once more I'm delving into Caroline Graham's world of detective fiction but this time it's with the second book in her Chief Inspector Barnaby series. Death of a Hollow Man takes place primarily in the Causton theater. It begins with the death of a prominent member of the local acting community comm...
It might come as a surprise that I had never heard of the writer Caroline Graham until my mom got me into watching a show called Midsomer Murders. (It's on Netflix if you're interested.) What does one have to do with the other? Well, the tv show is based off of a book series by Graham that begins wi...
I’m done with this series. I really can’t stand the 300 pages of backstory, followed by 100 pages of mystery solving, followed by another 100 pages of wrapping up the back story. I really don’t care who slept with who or who cheated who out of thousands of pounds; I just want to read about Inspector...
This was a bit of a letdown from previous books in the series. I settled on 3 stars as a rating, but I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this later in the week and re-rating it at 2.5 stars. First off, the editing in this book was atrocious. There were periods in place of commas, numerous instan...
Compared to the previous book in the series, this was a slow one. The body doesn't show up until the half-way mark. Due to the complicated relationships between the characters and the fact that Inspector Barnaby was familiar with most of the suspects, having worked on previous sets for the CADS, a c...
I have contradictory feelings about this book. On one hand it’s a great mystery with plenty of twists and unexpected reveals. The cast of characters is large, diverse, and well- developed. Inspector Barnaby is interesting, fleshed-out, and extremely competent. He immediately became one of my favorit...
LL and I have just recently discovered the joys of Midsomer Murders on Netflix and though we've been binging on them, we're not even 1/2 way through the series. But I was intrigued when I realized the early episodes were based on books. Unfortunately, my library didn't have the first one - the one I...
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