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Island of Bones by Imogen Robertson. A Gabriel Crowther and Harriet Westerman Mystery.
Review summary: There is a strong sense of time and place in this literary-style novel of suspense. The setting is vividly described, creating an atmospheric environment in which the storyline plays out. The detailed approach to character development does tend to slow down the pace of the plot, which at times seems overly complicated but for which all elements are important. A really quite exceptional novel. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Island of Bones
Imogen Robertson
A Gabriel Crowther and Harriet Westerman Mystery
Viking (October 2012)
Publisher synopsis: Keswick, 1783.
The tomb of the first Earl of Greta should have lain undisturbed on its island of bones for three hundred years. When idle curiosity opens the stone lid, however, inside is one body too many. Gabriel Crowther's family bought the Gretas' land long ago, and has suffered its own bloody history. His brother was hanged for murdering their father, the Baron of Keswick, and Crowther has chosen comfortable seclusion and anonymity over estate and title for thirty years. But the call of mystery brings him home at last.
Travelling with forthright Mrs. Harriet Westerman, who is escaping her own tragedy, Crowther finds a little town caught between new horrors and old, where ancient ways challenge modern justice. And against the wild and beautiful backdrop of fells and water, Crowther discovers that the past will not stay buried.
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