I love starting out the New Year with a nice, grisly murder, don't you? Especially when it's set in the lovely Devonshire region of England, supplemented with a parallel storyline in which an Elizabethan woman is murdered for much the same reasons as the contemporary woman - poor, friendless soul...
This book was OK but I wouldn't go as far as to call it a 'page turner' and I found the prose rather clumsy and try-hard in places. It's probably just me but I can't stand prose that tries to describe trivialities and details in an effort to make the story/characters more realistic, unless it's d...