Lynn reviewed The Man with a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
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4 stars
Now that I've read the latest in this series, I'm forced to start the whole series again.
263 pages
English language
Published May 19, 1981 by Little, Brown.
Inspector Richard Jury mysteries #1
The quaint, many-hued cottages lining Long Piddleton's High Street were capped with new snow and glittering in the morning sunshine. Pretty enough to be a Christmas card, the hamlet was, instead, the scene of two singularly gruesome murders. Martha Grimes's delightfully British novel of detection introduces Inspector Richard Jury, an affable, pragmatic investigator who has a winning way of ignoring protocol and playing his own canny game. Jury is dispatched to the quiet Northants village of Long Piddleton at Christmastime to help solve a spate of murders that have confounded the local constabulary.
[From inside front cover.]
Now that I've read the latest in this series, I'm forced to start the whole series again.