Death at the Seaside: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
Written by Frances Brody
Narrated by Joan Walker
3.5/5
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Nothing ever happens in August, so Kate goes off on a long-overdue holiday to Whitby to visit her friend Alma who works there as a fortune teller.
She's been looking forward to a relaxing seaside sojourn, but, upon arrival, she discovers that Alma's daughter, Felicity, has disappeared, leaving her mother a note and the pawn ticket for their only asset: a watch-guard. What makes this more intriguing is that the jeweler who advanced Felicity the thirty shillings is Jack Phillips, Alma's current gentleman friend.
Kate can't help but become involved, so she goes to the jeweller's shop to get some answers. While there, she makes a horrifying discovery in the back room, and it becomes clear that her services are needed. But she's met by a wall of silence by town officials, who are keen to maintain Whitby's idyllic facade, so it's up to Kate—ably assisted by Jim Sykes and Mrs. Sugden—to discover the truth behind Felicity's disappearance. And they say nothing ever happens in August...
Frances Brody
FRANCES BRODY lives in Leeds in the North of England. Before turning to crime with her first book in the Kate Shackleton series Dying in the Wool, she wrote historical sagas, winning the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin award for most regionally evocative debut saga of the millennium. Other Kate Shackleton Mysteries include Death at the Seaside, A Death in the Dales, and Murder on a Summer's Day.
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Reviews for Death at the Seaside
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyed the Whitby setting. Kate pays an August seaside visit to an old school friend, and immediately becomes involved in a local jeweler’s murder. Plus finding her missing god-daughter. A bit convoluted in plot but very enjoyable setting and characters.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5That's it, I give in. I've been following this series since reading (and loving!) the first novel in 2010, but this instalment gave me the impression of being written by numbers - and I note that I have skipped one mystery and that Frances Brody already has another adventure for Kate, so perhaps the author has gone for quantity over quality. That's not to say there is anything really wrong with this story, I was just bored, and not feeling either a connection with the characters or a sense of the period in which the books are set. Also, I hate what I call 'Jessica Fletcher' scenarios, where the detective is drawn into a crime involving close friends while visiting or on holiday. Here, Kate is spending time with a friend in Whitby - great location! - when a disappearance and a murder suddenly turn personal. Kate's friend Alma is a cartoon, there is no other word for her, and although the explanation for the murder kept me reading, I was never really interested in whodunit - and the characters gave the same impression! 'Oh, that's why? Well, let's arrest the person and move on', cue whimsical epilogue. Yawn. I'm done with Kate now.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As August is a quiet month as far as business is concerned Kate Shacklteon decides to go on holiday to Whitby, unfortunately for her it doesn't take long before she comes across a body and her holiday turns into a spot of investigating.
An enjoyable easily read mystery with some well-drawn characters set in the 1920's.
A NetGalley Book. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I hate to give the plot away by review so - If you like some clever twists and you can enter into the society of 1920's then this is a good read. I like that the novels are reasonably lengthy so you can get bedded into the plot. I mention this because I read at 100 pages per hour and therefore can digest a book in a day or so. I have a strong suspicion that if you read this in snippets the characters and plot twists would require a lot of recall every time you pick Brody's novels up. Or it may be a flaw in me that for fiction I cannot spread the reading out too long because it seems to lose drive.I think it is probably liking watching a movie with lengthy adverts or news inserted at random times which destroys the flow.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Kate Shackleton is the daughter of a police office & the widow of military man. She is currently working as a PI and employs a former police officer & a housekeeper to aid her in her investigations.In this installment, Kate has gone on holiday to visit a school friend, Alma & goddaughter, Felicity. Alma works on the pier as a local fortune teller & Felicity at a local tea room; the husband (a polygamist & smuggler) disappeared years ago. Alma believes herself to be in love with the local jeweler, from whom Kate & her husband had purchased their wedding rings from.... When Kate sees a bracelet in the window of the jewelry shop that she wants to purchase for Felicity, she goes inside only to find the jeweler dead from a blow to the back of the skull & the safe empty.Meanwhile Felicity & her boyfriend disappear along with the boat that belonged to the murdered jeweler.Kate begins to investigate, only to come up against the suspicion & prejudice of the local police and ends up a suspect of murder & smuggling.Enter Kate's former flame Inspector Marcus Charles from Scotland yard...I'm marking this book down 2 stars because I found several mistakes in the editing; I didn't like Alma (she was withholding & made everything difficult w/ her partial truths); and the book's thread was all over the place and messily written.