The Winds of Change - Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes worked out a good marketing tool for her crime fiction; an American writer, she set her novels in England, featuring an English detective, Richard Jury, and his rather eccentric, upper class friends. I would have stayed well clear – on the whole I’m not a fan of American authors writing about England when they know very little about it (at least I’m not aware that Martha Grimes has spent any substantial amount of time in England), but Elizabeth George did it so well that I thought some of her experience may have rubbed off on Martha Grimes. Unfortunately, Grimes’ characters are just that little bit too like parodies for comfort. The story A ...  Read the complete review