This was a lovely theme of historical fiction mixed liberally with mysteries on anything water. Canals, lakes, seas, everything connected to the murder or the mystery was linked to a waterway and they were all picturesque, all descriptive and some of them remote.
All the stories are slightly old fashioned form of detective work, many of them were solved by laymen in collaboration with the police force and all conducted in a very gentlemanly like and orderly manner, despite the final brutality of the act itself!
Very easy to read, very pleasant to read.
Sent to me by Netgalley for an unbiased review, courtesy of Poisoned Pen Press.
Reading this mid September here in Sri Lanka and very apt, because we are having floods right across the country. I just got up this morning to see the river alongside my home flooding the opposite bank.
My mother loves old fashioned mysteries like this. I'll have to look for a copy for her.
ReplyDeleteI love when I come across a nice mystery like this; glad you shared with us.
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