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    Murder at the Castle

    By Jeanne M. Dams

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    Dorothy Martin is in Wales for an opera full of passion, drama . . . and murder.

    Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to join their close friends Nigel and Inga Evans at a Welsh music festival where both Nigel and Inga will be performing with the world-renowned conductor Sir John Warner. Amid the glorious surroundings of Welsh castles and the history of long-ago battles, the stage is set for a most enjoyable festival.

    However, when a tragic accident takes the life of one of the choir, and the same fate befalls another performer, Dorothy and Alan find themselves in the midst of an investigation as tumultuous, passionate and complicated as any opera.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781780104003
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    Murder at the Castle
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    Jeanne M. Dams

    JEANNE M. DAMS is an Indiana native. Her first Dorothy Martin mystery, The Body in the Transept, won the Agatha Award as Best First Mystery. A retired teacher, she has degrees from Perdue and Notre Dame, and lives in South Bend, Indiana.

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    • 4/5
      Dorothy and Alan are attending a music festival at a castle in Wales in which their friend Nigel is performing. Ten years before, the conductor had been in a boat incident in which his first wife was believed to have been drowned. One of the performers goes overboard in a boating incident on this ship. It isn't long until a second accident claims the life of a diva no one liked. Although both have been ruled accidental, Dorothy and Alan can't help but suspect foul play. With the conductor's blessing, they set out to investigate. There are plenty of red herrings to keep a person second-guessing their theory. It keeps things interesting for the reader. I really wish that the castle's atmosphere had come through stronger than it did in this installment. Still, it was a fun read in an enjoyable series.
    • 4/5
      This time out, Dorothy Martin and her husband, Alan Nesbitt, attend a music festival in Wales. Murders of cast members occur. In an interesting version of a closed room mystery, the murderer must be found before the festival ends and the participants scatter to their homes. Of course Dorothy and her retired policeman-husband conduct their own investigation and bring the killer to justice. Fun reading in an interesting setting.
    • 4/5
      Dorothy Martin and her husband, former police detective Alan Nesbitt, are in Wales for a music festival with their friends Nigel and Inga Evans. Before the festival even starts, one of the chorus members dies in a boating accident. Then a star of the festival, a temperamental mezzo-soprano, dies under suspicious circumstances. The festival’s conductor, Sir John Warner, believes the local constabulary is not doing enough to figure out what exactly happened to his two performers – or to keep it from happening to another – that he asks Alan (and by extension, Dorothy) to do some sleuthing.I haven’t read a Dorothy Martin mystery for ages, and spotted Murder at the Castle – number 13 in the series -- among the “new arrivals” at my public library. Murder at the Castle is exactly what I expected it to be: a cozy mystery of the classic, Miss-Marple type … quiet, slow-paced and unassuming, with no “heroine in peril” scenarios. Current cozies are a bit different – edgier and many with crude language and more violent crimes. Readers who go for the old-fashioned cozies will love Murder at the Castle.