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A Place of Safety: A Chief Inspector Barnaby Novel (Chief Inspector Barnaby Mysteries) [Mass Market Paperback]

Caroline Graham (Author)

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  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Minotaur Books (2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312977107
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312977108
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 100 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #975,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars No place of safety, this. Dec 22 2003
By John Austin - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Picture a rectory in a small English village, and you will probably call up associations of sanctuary, harmony, shelter and reverence. Read a few chapters of this excellent crime novel and you'll see a very different picture. The vicar, no longer holding office in the church, peoples the childless household with young offenders serving their time of rehabilitation. For his wife, who owns the house, the nightmare of living in such a loveless marriage and such a dysfunctional household seems to turn into reality when she believes she has been responsible for the death of one of the inmates. Blackmail attempts follow, then murder. The case becomes one for Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy to investigate.

Author Caroline Graham is one of the best living practitioners of detective fiction. Her books have literary merit, the characters are as well rounded as is feasible in a whodunit game, and the denouements are neither too melodramatic nor too predictable. I can always read to the end with comfort, well able to remember and distinguish all the characters. There is a particularly venomous character here, Terry Jackson, who is hard to forget. Then there is the always sharply presented depiction of the Barnaby household, to which a son-in-law has by now been added.

Caroline Graham's Midsomer Murder novels appear every two or three years. This one dates from 1999 and is one of the best.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars The book is great, the Kindle edition a travesty, filled with errors Aug 23 2010
By Katiekins - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am delighted to discover Caroline Graham. She's a wonderful writer -- her characters become real the instant you meet them. Don't know how she does it. And Sergeant Troy is hilarious.

However -- shame on Amazon and Kindle for publishing this poorly-scanned and never-proofread Kindle edition. There are hundreds of clear scanning errors -- "die" for "the", "Arn" for "Ann", and many many more -- including dropped punctuation all over the place. It's extremely distracting to read a book that's this badly presented, and I'm hesitant to try any other of Caroline Graham's Kindle titles for fear they'll be the same.

This edition should be fixed -- and not by just running a spell-check operation on it, it needs a human being to see the errors -- or our money should be refunded. Really, it's outrageous -- no paper book could ever be published like this.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Who Botched the Kindle Version of This Fine Novel? Sep 2 2010
By Carol Bell - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
Caroline Graham is an excellent mystery writer. Who was responsible for the transfer of this novel to Kindle? Macmillan? Minotaur books? The Kindle staff? The book is marred throughout by typographical errors -- some of them quite astonishing! Whoever the culprit may be, he has done a disservice both to Ms Graham and to her readers. I hope that Kindle will be polite enough to take a look at the first edition of the novel and make the necessary alterations. In the future I shall continue to read the new Felony and Mayhem editions of her novels -- and of other mysteries as well. I don't want to repeat this experience!

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