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Sto caricando le informazioni... Murder at the Dolphin Hotel: A gripping cozy historical mystery (A Miss Underhay Mystery Book 1) (edizione 2019)di Helena Dixon (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 1933. Seventeen years have passed since Kitty Underhay's mother, Elowed, disappeared. Kitty now co-runs the Dolphin Hotel with her grandmother Mrs Treadwell. But Mrs Treadwell has been receiving threatening letters and has employed a Captain Matthew Bryant to investigate and keep Kitty safe, while she travels to Scotland to look after her inujred sister. But several murders later Inspector Grenville, Bryant and Kitty are no further solving the cases. An enjoyable and well-written cozy historical mystery. It also has some very likeable characters and I look forward to reading more about them, seeing how they and their relationships will develop. Overall a good solid start to a new series. A NetGalley Book nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Set in June 1933, Kitty Underhay is in charge of her family's Dartmouth hotel when she finds herself and her new hotel security officer, ex-army captain Matthew Bryant, in the middle of the hunt for a stolen ruby and then, a murder investigation. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Although I love hotels as settings and the premise sounded promising to me, I felt this novel to be a slog. The setting is the beautiful Devonshire coast, yet I never got a sense of place. The hotel and its guests did not come to life for me, and I did not get the feeling of really knowing the characters, they remained oddly lifeless. To my mind, the story is constructed and over the top, and I did not enjoy how it developed. The language is overall too modern and casual, to the effect that this did not feel like a story of the 1930s.
The reason I gave it two stars and not one is because I still wanted to know the ending, and towards that ending, and during the final showdown, it improved a little. Moreover, the character of Matt Bryant was a little more fleshed out than the other ones, so I liked some of the chapters featuring him. I will not continue with the series, though. ( )