Elizabeth EyreRecensioni

Un noble veneciano muere asesinado en su despacho. La joven viuda, Isabella, acusa al primogénito de la víctima, fruto de un matrimonio anterior. Sin embargo, la aparición de una carta de amor dirigida a Isabella por Pasquale, hijo del dux de Venecia, desvía hacia él las sospechas. Pasquale, sometido a brutales torturas, se declara culpable. No satisfecho con este desenlace, Segismundo investiga el caso y descubre turbias intrigas en las altas esferas de la República Serenísima.

Sigismondo, el cortesano, mercenario y detective que es tan hábil con su cerebro como con un hacha, regresa en esta tercera historia de la Italia del Renacimiento. El príncipe Scipione de Viverra está en peligro: su vasallo Carlotti ha reclamado la ciudad de Mascia para sí, y el Papa está dispuesto a ceder el estado pontificio a otro si el príncipe resulta débil. El Príncipe no solo necesita una victoria, sino que también necesita descubrir la Piedra Filosofal para fabricar oro para su tesoro vacío. Cuando Sigismondo llega de Mascia trae noticias de triunfo - el condotiero del príncipe, Ridolfo Ridolfi, ha tomado la ciudad - pero encuentra al príncipe todavía en peligro. ¿Es de los más cercanos a él? ¿Su esposa Isotta está ocultando una aventura que amenaza al príncipe y su estado? ¿El rehén Donato Landucci quiere venganza por la derrota de su padre? ¿Se ha vuelto Ridolfi voluble? ¿Qué pasa con el misterioso alquimista, el doctor Vergilio o el célebre santo fraile fray Ambrogio, que está utilizando el miedo de la gente a invadir la plaga para predicar la sedición? El asesinato repugnante finalmente golpea, pero ¿quién es envenenado y adónde conducirá? Sigismondo, acompañado, como siempre, del astuto imbécil Benno y el perro Biondello, es desafiado una y otra vez por los que darían veneno a un príncipe ..

En la turbulenta Italia de los Médicis y los Borgia, el duque de Rocca ve amenazada la paz de su feudo. Dos poderosas familias, enfrentadas por un odio ancestral, se hallan a punto de entablar una guerra a muerte.
El duque adopta una solución salomónica: ordena el enlace matrimonial entre dos jóvenes miembros de las familias en pugna. Pero, poco antes de llevarse a efecto la unión, desaparece la novia y muere asesinada la esposa del duque.
El enigmático Segismundo se ocupará de esclarecer los hechos.

Al investigar un sospechoso accidente que tuvo lugar durante las nupcias del príncipe Galeotto de Borgo, el enigmático solucionador de crímenes Sigismondo y sus compañeros encuentran resistencia de príncipe hasta que la joven princesa prometida es asesinada.

Insp. Bone. female impersonator killed twice at rock party

pretty good cozy mystery

While former nanny Phoebe Gray was loved by the many children she had cared for in the small English village, not all adults felt the same way about her. Nanny had Parkinson's and was prone to falls, so when her body was discovered in a wooded area, it was assumed that she had fallen and hit her head. However, the Superintendent Bone and his partner are unable to find anything in her home that matches the fatal injury. Nanny had recently inherited a large sum of money from a former charge. Was this the motive for her murder? Or did she know a secret that one of her families would kill to keep?

There were several things I liked about this debut mystery, but it had a few problems. The development of characters and motives wasn't consistent. A few suspects received a lot of attention, while a few others weren't developed very well. I frequently felt like something was missing from a description or a conversation. I think the book needed a little more detail. There was a nice balance between the investigation and Superintendent Bone's personal life. I liked his relationship with his daughter Charlotte, who is recovering from a serious brain injury from the accident that killed Bone's wife and young son. The book's good points outweigh its flaws, and I'll be on the lookout for more books in this series.½

The final Superintendent Bone book, featuring a welcome return of local rock star Ken Cryer and his entourage. Another enjoyable cosy - though it's much less of a mystery as it's pretty obvious who the main suspect is from very early on in the book. Bone's work at solving the mystery is interrupted by his worry as his wife Grizel goes into labour with their first child. It's appropriate that this is the final book in the series, as in the first book Bone was newly bereaved with the loss of his wife and infant son in a car accident; now with the series completed, he is restored to happiness as a husband and father. These books are well written with warmth and humour, worth a look if you like Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers etc or Ruth Rendell's Wexford books. [Note that if you want the english edition the title is just "Quarry"]

My superintendent Bone binge continues. Here Bone is enjoying a belated honeymoon, visiting a country house belonging to the husband of his wife's friend. They join a tour group to see over the house, but the host's penchant for practical jokes takes a sinister turn with two deaths in quick succession. Bone is forced to sit by, but not idly, whilst a less sympathetic detective takes the case. Very enjoyable classic "cosy".
On a re-read (2021) I find Lord Roke much in the eccentric peer pattern of Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford's works and Ngaio Marsh's Lord Pastern. There's also a nice nod to Dorothy Sayer's Busman's Honeymoon.

Continuing on with my Superintendent Bone binge... Suicides or murder? Superintendent Bone has to investigate three deaths in an eccentric and damaged family whilst developing his own much healthier relationship with his daughter's teacher... Perhaps not the best in the Bone series, but still a very readable and entertaining expample of a modern "cosy".

The last of my current Superintendent Bone binge - though I have two more on order... Superintendent Bone has married Grizel Shaw and, with his daughter Cha are house hunting in the country to be ready for the new addition to the family. When he takes Cha to the village fete the last thing he expects is to be investigating a double murder, particularly one where his daughters unsuitable old boyfriend may be a suspect. Feels rather influenced by TV, in particular Midsomer Murders and Keeping Up Appearances but none-the-less an entertaining read.

Still on my Bone binge... Superintendent Bone is faced with a tricky mystery when the collapse of a retaining wall in the Marsh family garden reveals the body of the former Mrs Marsh, who was presumed to have gone overseas 14 years earlier. Who put her in?, how is his daughter's unsuitable boyfriend tied to the family, and will he have the courage to propose to her teacher at last? Not perhaps the strongest in the Bone series but still an enjoyable, cosy mystery

The first in the Superintendent Bone series - and a great light read in the cosy tradition of the Queens of Crime. If you like Agatha Christie et al you'll thoroughly enjoy this series. Here we are introduced to Superintendent Robert Bone, as his investigates the murder of the elderly Nanny Grey whilst coping with single parenthood of his injured daughter Cha after a car crash has taken the life of his wife and baby son. Recommended.

I've had a bit of a Staynes and Storey binge. This is the second in the Superintendent Bone series and sees him investigating the murder of a popular schoolmistress, behind the scenes at his daughter's school's perforamance of "The Beggars Opera". Of course the schoolmistress proves to be not quite as popular as first thought... I do enjoy these mysteries which are in the cosy tradition, particularly the back story about the widowed Bone and his daughter. Very enjoyable light reading...

Inspector Bone investigates the death of an American television actress during her wedding in a British village while his wife is giving birth to their son. Pleasant, competent mystery.

Lovely modern cozy. Great characters. Good story. Re-read it as it's the only book I know which features a monstrance as a plot device and I'd just seen a monstrance in the V&A Princely Treasures Exhibition.

Segismundo, el peculiar «detective» de la Italia renacentista, se ve envuelto aquí en una turbia intriga marcada por los celos y la ambición. Enviado en ca¬lidad de mensajero a visitar a la agonizante princesa Oralia, se encuentra ante la inesperada y difícil misión de defender a la hija de la princesa de su propio padre. Al ahondar en el extraño conflicto descubrirá un oscuro pasado tras el cual se esconde la mano del despiadado cardenal Petrucci.