- Hardcover: 279 pages
- Publisher: Simon and Schuster (May 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684815680
- ISBN-13: 978-0684815688
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #291,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In his 13th appearance, following No Laughing Matter, Inspector Luke Thanet has ample opportunity to display the sympathetic and acute investigative technique that has earned a Silver Dagger award for the author of this British series. Dead is Max Jeopard, a handsome, outwardly charming playboy and travel writer found floating in the swimming pool at his own engagement party. Among the family and guests at the impressive family home of his fiancee, Tess Sylvester, Thanet finds many with both motive and opportunity for murder. Among them are the victim's brother Hartley, who was Tess's former boyfriend, and Anthea Greenway, who was dropped by Max when he took up with Tess. There's Tess herself, whose relationship with Max was volatile; her parents, each with reason to lament the prospect of Max as a son-in-law; Tess's schizophrenic brother, who escaped the watch of his nurse at the same time Max disappeared; and Gerald Argent, the man whom Tess spurned for Max. Thanet's deft probing reveals an increasingly ugly portrait of the victim and uncovers more than one secret and more than one crime in the lives, loves and tangled loyalties of the suspects. This is a solid, if unexceptional, offering from Simpson.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Inspector Luke Thanet and Sergeant Mike Lineham head the investigation into the apparent murder of Max Jeopard, a handsome but manipulative scion of a wealthy family. The disparity between a policeman's wage and the showy affluence of Jeopard's Tudor mansion gives rise to trenchant observation as Thanet and Lineham interrogate the usual suspects?spurned lover, jealous ex-boyfriend, disapproving father?with practiced adroitness, piecing together a picture of events. Simpson (No Laughing Matter, Scribner, 1993) is very good at dialog and characterization, so this English village "cozy" goes down quite well.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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An excellent whodunit!, Jan 29 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Day for Dying: An Inspector Luke Thanet Novel (Hardcover)
This is the first mystery by Dorothy Simpson where I actually figured out the culprit before Inspector Thanet. What I love about D. Simpson's books are the detail. Her characters are fully realized, you see them with all their faults and foibles. And this book is very timely, but I can't say more than that, because I'd spoil some of the mystery. Another thing I enjoy about D. Simpson's series, is that you really believe there is an Inspector Thanet. We're taken along with him when he goes home (I suggest you find the very first book and read all of them in sequence - because you find out about his wife and two children - their struggles in childrearing AND Thanet's problems in dealing with a wife who wants to work outside the home)as well as out and about interviewing suspects. D. Simpson's books are always very rich - with characters, motives, settings. I've never been to England, but with D. Simpson's talents for description, I'm there in Kent with Thanet. I can't wait to read her latest, which is coming out in February.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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softened with compassion, April 3 2002
By Karen Sampson Hudson "Karen Sampson Hudson" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Day for Dying: An Inspector Luke Thanet Novel (Hardcover)
Dorothy Simpson writes excellent books in the British cozy-mystery genre, and, in a gentle style of her own, she introduces us to villains who are not so much evil as just prone to making mistakes. I've read all of her works, and I eagerly look forward to more.She treats all of her characters, police detectice Thanet and those he must investigate, with a careful compassion and a gentle probing into motives and actions. Her novels are not psychological studies; instead they are journeys into wisdom as we learn to understand the hearts of all the characters, Thanet and his family included. I feel that her approach can be labeled "unique" in a genre which is usually so cookie-cutter repetitive. Treat yourself to reading this book, or any of her works!
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