I admit I have been eye-balling this series for some time. It hits one of my favorite tropes, namely a sophisticated married couple mystery solving team. Even better if it is a series.But there were a few things that kept putting me off. Namely I couldn't figure out quite where to start. Between...
Lovely, lovely.
One of the unexpected advantages of ebooks: Replacing the renamed characters with their originals. (The characters and the author were renamed when the series moved from HarperCollins to Kensington. I read the first of the new books in paper, and the new names threw me off the entire time.)I'm not ...
A question often asked of me regarding series is whether or not the books can or should be read out of sequence. It's a question every authors need to consider. As a bookseller, I often find myself diving into the middle of a series and feeling slightly disoriented for it.In the case of Grant's no...
This is a book I've been waiting for Grant to write, and the best part is that she still managed to surprise me with the way she completed it. The best series do not only follow the lives of the main characters, but through glimpses a little more widely spaced, we also see the growth of secondary c...
Last read 24 March to 2 April 2012I have belatedly noticed that Malcolm Rannoch, Peter Wimsey and Jack Blakeney all went to Balliol College, Oxford. This pleases me. If you have not yet read Tracy Grant's books, you are either new here or you just don't trust me. There's not much I can add about ...
It's funny...I put off reading this book for awhile, because I was really bothered by the name changes of the two main characters. (They went from Charles and Mélanie Fraser to Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch.) But once I got started reading, I quickly realized the only things that changed about these c...
This is a Charles & Melanie Fraser prequel, with both author and characters renamed, one presumes for marketing reasons. It's an okay historical mystery, but Malcolm and Suzanne are so repressed that their emotional arc is completely uninteresting -- and it suffers the same issue as Beneath a Silen...
This is a Charles & Melanie Fraser prequel, with both author and characters renamed, one presumes for marketing reasons. It's an okay historical mystery, but Malcolm and Suzanne are so repressed that their emotional arc is completely uninteresting -- and it suffers the same issue as Beneath a Silen...
The year is 1814 and Europe's leaders have gathered in Vienna to redefine the boundaries from Napoleon's now defunct empire. As the book opens, Princess Tatiana Kirsanova is found brutally murdered and the suspects are as numerous as her lovers - and that includes Malcolm Rannoch, attaché to the Bri...
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