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Murder at Ashgrove House (Rose Simpson Mysteries Book 1) Kindle Edition
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- Language : English
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- Print length : 260 pages
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Reviewed in Australia on 18 April 2018
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The writing is simply not that which appeals to me. Characters and setting failed to grab me. Others may enjoy it, we each like different things.
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Reviewed in Australia on 19 August 2020
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Good read quite engrossing characters were quite believable and the intrigue of the mystery was very interesting i recommend it
Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2014
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a nice easy read for a rainy afternoon.
i did find it fairly predictable and the attempt to build the tension was slighly exaggerated but it was still a nice read.
i wil certainly try the second book of tge series .
i did find it fairly predictable and the attempt to build the tension was slighly exaggerated but it was still a nice read.
i wil certainly try the second book of tge series .
Reviewed in Australia on 17 June 2014
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I didn't really enjoy this too much, but having said that if you want to read something and not think too much than this book if for you.
Reviewed in Australia on 31 July 2014
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Very good read can do with more of this author
Reviewed in Australia on 22 September 2014
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I could have been reading a Daisy Dalrymple book so much the same except this time it is the poor girl as the heroine
Reviewed in Australia on 24 December 2014
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liked it
Reviewed in Australia on 4 August 2014
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HARDLY A GRIPPING MYSTERY. ALMOST A BARBARA CARTLAND INSIPID LOVE STORY.
DID MANAGE TO KEEP ONE GUESSING AS TO THE MURDERER BUT THE STORY WAS WEAK
DID MANAGE TO KEEP ONE GUESSING AS TO THE MURDERER BUT THE STORY WAS WEAK
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fellwalker46
1.0 out of 5 stars
Derivative, Tedious, Implausible, Poor Prose
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2021Verified Purchase
I found very little to like in this book, indeed it is surprising I managed to finish it. To do so, I had to scan-read countless pages devoted to the dressing, wardrobe and cosmetics of the female characters, including much angst on the suitability of same in polite society. Perhaps the writer thought this would establish a period feel; it didn't. It was billed as appealing "to fans of Agatha Christie and Downton Abbey" but it has no remote connection with the skill, elegance and prose of a Christie novel. In fact, quite simply the book is badly written in prose, structure, and charaterisation. A better description would be a Cinderella panto (complete with wicked stepmother) meets an emasculated Downton Abbey with chunks of Pride & Prejudice thrown in (one scene seems a direct lift from P&P). Conversations sound false. Scene breaks and transitions were clunky and failed to generate either mood or menace. Research was clearly sketchy; for example the writer seems unaware that shotguns fire pellets from a cartridge, not bullets like a rifle - a somewhat important point in a murder mystery. This is typical of the whole book which sadly has very little to recommend it.

Albear
4.0 out of 5 stars
A country house party from hell
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2017Verified Purchase
I'm a sucker for Country House murder mysteries and this one didn't disappoint. A nice mix of upstairs-downstairs. Engaging characters, both invited and uninvited: shop assistants and peers, servants and policemen, some wicked enough to deserve it in the neck, some wicked enough to give it, and some clever enough to solve it. But who dunnit is the surprise. I enjoyed it enough to invest in two more of the series.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is so awful i can't believe Rose Simpson is the lead character in an ongoing seriesreadful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2020Verified Purchase
This tries to be a vintage style country house murder mystery. The author seems to have based research on watching an episode of Downton Abbey and Bargain Hunt. There are glaring anachronisms , i'm certain a 1930's aristocratic hostess would not hide in the rose garden to give a guest a "heads up" The development of characters and plot is non existent and the book is padded out with repetative inanities : chapters devoted to characters had explaining why no outside servants were present . The"heroine" is insipid and the boy who falls instantly in love with her obviously does so because it is necessary for the plot as nothing else in this book accounts for it and the author wastes no time on making it credible. There is a scene which appears to be a direct lift from Elizabeth Bennet seeing off Lady Cartherine De Burgh.The clunky plot depends on the detective omitting to check a gun cupboard when the victim has been shot . The heroine only succeeds in delaying the solving of the case and the denoument depends on the assertion that only pork can be served with Rosemary - no really!!!

Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Oh do get on with it!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2018Verified Purchase
Laboured and sometimes totally impenetrable, the story keeps coming to a full stop and there are pages of extraneous matter that has to be skipped before the story lurches on again. But it is of its time and the "shockkng" denouement eventually arrives. But I'm going to try the next one in the series to find out how the heroine gets on and also to see if the padding is less and the story goes from A to Z without switching back towards and forwards for no apparent reason.
It is easy reading and sometimes that's all you want and for this reason I have given five stars
It is easy reading and sometimes that's all you want and for this reason I have given five stars

Andrea1
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent- a great fast paced mystery with interesting characters
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2017Verified Purchase
I loved this book, a real gem in a genre crowded with bad mystery books. Addison's characters are likable and interesting and the book moves at a fast pace, especially in the latter 2/3rds. I have read the next two novels and I am on the fourth (Renards). Still loving the books!
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