The Devil's Dice
Registered by gypsysmom of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on 12/31/2018
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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I read a review of this book in the Winnipeg Free Press and read parts of the review to my husband. I put my name on the hold list at the library but my wonderful spouse remembered the book and bought it for me for Christmas 2018. Now I can cancel my library hold.
Reading this book in England (although not in the Peak District but north of there) gave me a real feel for the descriptions in the book. This is a debut work by this writer and I have a few quibbles but overall it was well written.
Meg Dalton is a Detective Inspector in the Peak District. She was born in this area but moved away for college (Cambridge!) and then worked elsewhere. Her mother and gran still live here and are getting on in age so Meg thought she would take a DI position when it came available. She is called out to a suspicious death of a patent attorney in a cave. The man ate a poisoned cake and it is not known if he deliberately ate it himself or was murdered. To add further mystery the cave is decorated with a carving of the Grim Reaper which has the dead man's initials under it. While Meg has doubts about it being a suicide others such as his partners seem convinced he did kill himself. Meg continues to poke into the dead man's life and it appears someone doesn't appreciate that because she is followed one rainy night and tumbles down some stairs getting badly bruised. That isn't the only altercation Meg has during the course of the book and that is one of my quibbles. If she gets this much physical damage on every case I can't see her surviving for long. And it seems like she lacks confidence in herself so I'm not sure she can inspire confidence in others. Nevertheless after following several false leads she does manage to confront the killer (because of course the attorney was murdered or there wouldn't be much of a book) and she appears to have a better view of herself by the end of the book.
I hope to be able to read more from this author who certainly has an interesting area as the setting for her book.
Meg Dalton is a Detective Inspector in the Peak District. She was born in this area but moved away for college (Cambridge!) and then worked elsewhere. Her mother and gran still live here and are getting on in age so Meg thought she would take a DI position when it came available. She is called out to a suspicious death of a patent attorney in a cave. The man ate a poisoned cake and it is not known if he deliberately ate it himself or was murdered. To add further mystery the cave is decorated with a carving of the Grim Reaper which has the dead man's initials under it. While Meg has doubts about it being a suicide others such as his partners seem convinced he did kill himself. Meg continues to poke into the dead man's life and it appears someone doesn't appreciate that because she is followed one rainy night and tumbles down some stairs getting badly bruised. That isn't the only altercation Meg has during the course of the book and that is one of my quibbles. If she gets this much physical damage on every case I can't see her surviving for long. And it seems like she lacks confidence in herself so I'm not sure she can inspire confidence in others. Nevertheless after following several false leads she does manage to confront the killer (because of course the attorney was murdered or there wouldn't be much of a book) and she appears to have a better view of herself by the end of the book.
I hope to be able to read more from this author who certainly has an interesting area as the setting for her book.
Journal Entry 3 by gypsysmom at Old Barn Cafe in Malham, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (5/29/2019 UTC) at Old Barn Cafe in Malham, North Yorkshire United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book on the rack holding tourist brochures . This release is for the 2019 52 Towns in 52 weeks release challenge - Town #8 .
When you find a BookCrossing book it is yours to do with what you like. You can read it and keep it or pass it on or if you don't think it is your kind of book pass it on to someone who might like it or release it in a spot for someone else to find like you just did. Whatever you choose it would be great if you could write a short note letting us know what new adventures the book is on.
When you find a BookCrossing book it is yours to do with what you like. You can read it and keep it or pass it on or if you don't think it is your kind of book pass it on to someone who might like it or release it in a spot for someone else to find like you just did. Whatever you choose it would be great if you could write a short note letting us know what new adventures the book is on.
