Friday, September 12, 2025

Suddenly at his residence

This novel by Christianna Brand is an Inspector Cockrill mystery (i don't think i have read anything of this detective series before). 

The story is set in the Second World War, this is a good old fashioned family murder drama with the usual mixed cast of characters who range in various degrees of annoyance. This does make the dialogue a little hard going at times as paragraphs are wasted on family nonsense of little relevance to the plot, i do prefer my stories to get on with it!

However, the story has a good twist and an action packed final act with the German bombing of the murder scene. Unfortunately, the previous acts can sometimes drag.

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