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Ladataan... Aunt Bessie DecidesTekijä: Diana Xarissa
   Books Read in 2023 (1,960) Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  MissBrangwen | Dec 3, 2023 |   I was ready for the action to begin well before it did...but one of the charms of the Bessie stories is how she and her Scoobygroup hang together even when not solving crimes, and that's what a goodly part of this story does. It's not a bad thing per se, but I was, as stated, ready to get the body on the slab (so to speak) and figure out why the killer chose the time and place for the crime. I'll be honest...the theatre troupe was made up of nasty, unkind, un-Bessie-able people who won't reappear (if anyone does I'll be very surprised, not least because they're all just visiting from the US) who drink and cuss and comport themselves quite unbecomingly. Xarissa has a low opinion of her countryfolk. As I tend to share that trait with her, I wasn't put off by it. I just don't see how the clear and rational deductions that lead her to the murderer's identity did not occur to her far earlier. A quibble only. I'm not here for the puzzles, I'm here for the Scoobygroup and the food! Fair warning: do not start here. Start at the beginning or there will be a great loss of grounding in the whys and hows of Aunt Bessie's special little (term used advisedly) world. (  ) richardderus | Mar 31, 2023 | näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Aunt Bessie decides that she and her closest friends should have an enjoyable night out.Elizabeth Cubbon (known to almost everyone as Aunt Bessie) has made many friends over the lifetime that she's lived in the village of Laxey, but few have been as close as the ones she's made recently. Bessie relied on Doona Moore, Hugh Watterson and John Rockwell to help her through several recent murder investigations she's found herself caught up in. Now she wants to treat them all to an open-air performance of a Shakespearean play on the grounds of historic Peel Castle.Aunt Bessie decides that it doesn't much matter what show the troupe is performing as long as she and her friends can relax and have fun.Two members have recently left the theatre company. Now the troupe has thrown aside its usual repertoire in favour of a play written by one of their own. When those two former members appear in the audience, though, someone decides to get rid of one of them for good.Aunt Bessie decides to give the show another chance, but a second performance almost ends in a second tragedy.With all of the suspects blaming one another, and several of them turning up on the doorstep of Bessie's cottage, it's time for Bessie to decide to solve this murder herself.This is the fourth book in the Isle of Man Cozy Mystery Series. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I enjoyed the Shakespeare/theatre theme of this novel, and as always, I loved Bessie and her friends and the comforting atmosphere of the story. The pace is slow and there is a lot of eating, tea drinking and chatting, but still there is a bit more meat to this case than the previous ones, which is why I liked this book a little more. Towards the ending, though, the plot it so unrealistic that it got on my nerves, which is why this is only three and a half stars and not four as I thought while reading the main part. Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading this novel very much and will certainly continue with the series. (