This series is fun to read, and gives a lot of insight into the 1930s. You get the mystery story, which of course is solved, and you get some history as well. (It's as though 'a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down'!) The depression was like nothing we've seen since.
The characters in the story are interesting, and keep a reader's attention.
"Great mystery"
2008-07-02
- Reviewed By User: A1KZPIMNZ9567P
This mystery was one of the best I have read in a while. Brother and sister learn what it is to earn a living by having guests pay for a weekend at their inherited mansion. Their first weekend with a noted author turns into a disaster. One of the guests is murdered and they need to solve this murder. Light reading, but kept my interest all the way to the end. I really enjoyed this one so much, that I want to read more of her books.
A brother and sister inherit an estate in the 1930s only to find out that they don't have any money to run it so they decide to use the mansion to make money by bringing in a famous guest and have paying guests who want to hob-nob with the rich. OF course their is a murder and a mystery is born. With their usual good humor Lily and Robert continue on and eventually put all the pieces together to solve the crime. A nice change from grusome and gory murder mysteries.
"Murder is an Uninvited Guest at Grace and Favor Cottage"
As the Great Depression drags into 1933, siblings Robert and Lily Brewster are looking for ways to make money in their new home of Voorburg-on-Hudson. Robert and Lily decide to use the mansion they inherited from their Great Uncle Horatio to host a paying weekend where their society friends (who still have plenty of money) can mingle with celebrity writer Julian West. The glamorous weekend gets off to a bumpy start, though, when there are veiled hostilities between some of the guests. The party weekend is completely spoiled when Lorna Ethridge, one of the geusts, is found strangled in her bedroom after the first evening at Grace and Favor. In an effort to clear the mansion of scandal, Lily and Robert set out to find out the killer's identity.
"In the Still of the Night" is the second novel in the Grace and Favor series, set in upper New York State during the Great Depression. The story is filled with everyday details about life in the Depression and is full of 1930's ambience. Author Churchill continues to do a great job of developing the main characters in the story, as well as fleshing out other characters who were only briefly introduced in the series premiere "Anything Goes." I look forward to enjoying the next installment in this fun period mystery series.
As a lover of a good mystery, I picked up this book because it listed Ms. Churchill as being the "Winner of the Agatha and Macavity Mystery Readers Awards." She obviously did not win with this piece of work. It almost reads more as a romance novel for women too ashamed to buy the books with Fabio on the cover. The outcome is predictable and the subplot is mundane at best. Not for sincere fans of mysteries.
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