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'An excellent thriller - A compulsive series of rural adventures' Good Book Guide
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Thea throws herself into house-sitting for Babs and Cedric Angell in Lower Slaughter following her beloved father's death - anything to keep her busy and away from some of her rather difficult relatives. And while feeling lonely, keeping the house in order and looking after the Angell's menagerie of animals does the trick for a short period of time.
But when Thea's prickly elder sister turns up on her doorstep after witnessing a horrific murder, the tentative tranquillity in Lower Slaughter vanishes, replaced by the sinister connotations of the town's name.
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Thea's Family Gets Involved, In More Ways Than One,
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This review is from: Slaughter in the Cotswolds (Paperback)
"Slaughter in the Cotswolds" is the sixth in the series by Rebecca Tope, one that I liked a little more than some of the others I've read. Thea Osborne's father has just died and she, along with her older brother, two sisters and mother are mourning his loss; but Thea is committed to a house-sitting job in Lower Slaughter, another picturesque village in the Cotswolds, this time for two weeks and with the charge of caring for a parrot, two dogs, a bunch of cats and a family of ferrets. Her older sister Emily calls upon her in short order, needing to talk to her about their father and her feelings about his death, which suits Thea fine, but when Emily leaves on a rain-soaked evening, she inadvertently stumbles into a scene of one man stomping another man to death. Worse, Emily soon learns that the victim is someone she knew, a friend of her husband's, and Thea has met him as well. Thea's boyfriend Phil Hollis is, again, in charge of the case, but things are not all right on that front either - it seems their relationship has withered away, perhaps because, as Phil suggests, it was really always more about sex for Thea than anything else and since he's still recovering from a slipped disc in the last book, there's not been too much of that lately. In any event, Thea also finds herself drawn to the murder victim's gorgeous half-brother, the Reverend Peter Clarke, but her old pagan friend Ariadne is already involved with him. And then there's the sheep farmer, Henry Galton, a huge man who's furious with Thea for letting the dogs run about without a leash, particularly as immediately thereafter, some of his sheep turn up "worried" to death.... I still find Thea tremendously annoying, and once again the animals are pretty much nothing but props in the book, but at least this story has a lot of things going on in which Thea is not the center of attention for once, so I'm a bit happier with this book than some of the others. But I'm pleased that I've only got one more to go (there are more in the series, but I actually paid for the first seven). Not exactly recommended, but not as bad as some of the series.
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Do Not Want To Leave The Cotswolds.....,
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This review is from: Slaughter in the Cotswolds (Paperback)
Just ONE more book to read of Ms Tope's wonderful series, I have enjoyed The Cotswolds Mysteries so much, Ms. Tope is so insightful of human nature and the feelings of people, regarding death of a family member, interaction of sisters and feelings about a beloved dog, these and her outstanding writing make her books a fine combination of mystery and characters and places you want to know better.
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