Friday, January 29, 2016

A nice review!!
This review is from: After Life (The Gemini & Flowers Mysteries Book 4) (Kindle Edition)
I don't know why, but I mistakenly took this to be the first of Jonathan Gregory's Gemini and Flowers Mysteries, it's the fourth in the series - there are six now. Not to worry just dive in, Mr Gregory will happily present an array of country folk to set the scene. You need to keep your wits about you, there is minestrone soup load of ingredients going in here. The setting is rural Dorset, the village of Rilton, where the sense of community is strong, the lives of the inhabitants interwoven by mutual trust stemming from the impossibly likeable figure of Mike - (there is a blemish in his past, it is later revealed) and his altruism and beneficient paternalism to all around him, including telepathic twins, nephews adopted as sons. There is a threat to the continuity and order of things, evil will try and usurp cosy nostrums about country life. Like the Archer's finding a spider in the chicken soup of contentment. Such is murder. Mr. Gregory juggles the many juxtapositions with narrative easy, the dialogue a bit too loose at times, but the characters are charming and you quickly become engaged and engrossed by them. I enjoyed this book immensely. Get drawn into Dorset, there's trouble on t' Heath, as anywhere 't Mill.
Heath.

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