From Booklist
Trouble is afoot in Dorset, and Detective Inspector Nick Holroyd is right in the middle of it. There has been a string of robberies, and the women of the area are being terrorized by the Wessex rapist. Nick also learns that his stepsister has joined a nearby commune, the Children of Light, run by the charismatic Gabriel. Meanwhile, Nick faces a personal problem on the romance front: his friend, Rachel, a widow and a lay minister, is not sure how deeply she wants to get involved with him. Quinton does a fine job of tossing all these elements together and coming up with a mystery that's full-bodied and satisfying. This British import makes no concessions to American audiences in terms of language, description, or any of the small details with which Yanks might not be familiar--and that's one of the book's definite strengths. Readers will get a sense of today's England, with its icing of history juxtaposed against a rather charmless modernity.
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From Kirkus Reviews
Ellen Holroyd isn't really Detective Inspector Nick Holroyd's sister--his stepmother bore her out of wedlock years after his father died--but that's no reason why he shouldn't come down from Dorset to find out what's become of her. Is she the latest cloistered convert to the self-styled Children of Light, as brassy Claire Holroyd fears, or, still worse, the latest victim of the Wessex Rapist? Quinton (Some Foul Play, 1996) leavens Nick's search with hints of his continuing romance with widowed Rachel Morton, but even hardened Anglophiles will be hard-pressed to swallow all the coincidences here. --
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