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 The Winds of Change - Martha Grimes
Description: ISBN 0451216962 / Author: Martha Grimes / Genre: Crime / Thriller Newest Review: ... by his daughter, Flora’s stepfather. This murder, in turn, is thought to be connected to the abduction of Flora a few years ... more  ... before.
Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard inspector, works on the case in conjunction with police officers from the Devon and Cornwall police. Jury also calls in one of his friends, Melrose Plant, to do some work at the stately home in the hope that he will be able to work out what is going on. All the signs point towards Baumann, but is he a double murderer and would he have kidnapped his own daughter? Jury is on the case and is determined to find out the truth.
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The Winds of Change (Richard Jury Mysteries) by Martha Grimes - S
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The Winds of Change - Martha Grimes: Missing Children (814 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 28.10.06 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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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 ...
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