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Who's Sorry Now? (Grace & Favor Mysteries, No. 6)
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Author: Jill Churchill
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Who's Sorry Now? (Grace & Favor Mysteries, No. 6) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060734602
ISBN: 0060734604
Label: Avon Books
Manufacturer: Avon Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2006-10-31
Publisher: Avon Books
Product Release Date: 2006-10-31
Studio: Avon Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060734602
ISBN: 0060734604
Label: Avon Books
Manufacturer: Avon Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2006-10-31
Publisher: Avon Books
Product Release Date: 2006-10-31
Studio: Avon Books
Editorial Review of Who's Sorry Now? (Grace & Favor Mysteries, No. 6)
Sister and brother Lily and Robert Brewster may not have a penny to their names, but at least they're in good company––times couldn't be tougher in the Hudson River Valley during the Great Depression, and even the much–revered Chief of Police has lost his home. Their poor town has been stripped of its Post Office, too; now mail gets dumped off the trains steaming up the Hudson River, and people have to rummage through the bags to find their letters and packages. When Robert helps a young widow and her newly–arrived German grandfather haul the old man's trunks to his granddaughter's shop, he thinks he may have found a new set of friends––especially the kind train porter who helps them out. But when a red swastika is found painted on the widow's shop window, and the train porter is found dead, Robert knows that something much deeper, and much darker, is happening in his sleepy little town. Even back at Grace & Favor Mansion, where Lily and Robert live, things are falling apart. The Chief of Police has just unearthed a very, very old skeleton––right on the grounds! Could the two murders be related? It's up to Lily and Robert to find out the truth, before their quiet community is town apart by hatred, secrets, and a killer who may have set his sights on Grace & Favor...
Customer Reviews of Who's Sorry Now? (Grace & Favor Mysteries, No. 6)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Well-intentioned, but terrible
Review: I just read the Booklist review (at the top of this Amazon page) and saw the description of Churchill's "spare and eloquent" writing. To me, it sounded like it was written by a 12-year-old, for an audience of 8-year-olds. Based on the other reader reviews, it sounds like maybe the earlier entries in this series are better, but I didn't make it past the first chapter in this one.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Terrible "mystery", unedited, looks unfinished
Review: This looks like a draft. None of the characters you follow in the first few chapters appear in the last few chapters. Every sentence is noun, verb with no variation, no clauses. The first mystery, a teen girl's body in the garden, is completely ignored halfway through and never looked into! The second mystery, lots of cash in the bookcase is clearly a case of a manipulative lawyer scamming them, but never looked into again. The third crime seems to hinge on their only clue, it was done with a jeweler's wire. But this is never found nor attributed to the person arrested. And the running gag of trying to build a homemade post office at the station is not only pointless but also left hanging at the end.
None of the characters do anything natural. None of the dialog is worth hearing once, but it is repeated at least three times each (and once five times), apparently to fill the pages. Don't waste your time on this hack.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A children's book?
Review: I've read one other Churchill book, but was willing to give this one a go. It was light, and charming, but, I just don't get it. The style of the writing, with the repitition of main plot themes over and over; it just seemed either the author thought we needed to be retold a story over and over, or she just ran out of things to write.
Let me give an example. Early in the book we learn that 3 "biddies" were going through the mail, and they wanted to prevent certain letters from being delivered. As the plot progressed, the protagonist felt it was important to tell others about what happened. Follow me so far? Now, in most books, the author would have written "...and he told them about the incident he saw with the mail," but this author has him repeat the same story with the same details to each person he sees. And WE, poor readers, have to hear it all over again. Likewise for other important "clues," they are repeated in detail over and over again as if the reader is a child, and needs to be reminded of these not-very-complicated plot developments.
The mystery itself was mundane, and there is a whole "subplot" of burying up some bones that is not at all relevent to the book.
Nice sense of life during the depression era, though. And charming (although 1 dimentional) characters
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Another good book in this series
Review: This is the fifth in the A Grace and Favor Mystery series, and just as charming and fun as the previous titles.
Robert and Lily Brewster have been left the Grace and Favor mansion in rural New York by their Great Uncle Horatio. It is just after the stock market crash, and their privileged childhood has not prepared them for a life of searching for work and poverty.
Uncle Horatio had some odd conditions in his will; so they must live in the mansion with a number of other odd lodgers and their Great Uncle's property manager, Mr. Prinney. Police Chief Howard Walker moves into the mansion in this story, and he must deal a number of problems: a murdered railway clerk, an old skeleton found when some dead bushes are dug up on the mansion's grounds, hate crimes against the new tailor in the town of Voorberg, and some stolen library books. His new assistant, Deputy Ron Parker, proves to be a gem, with unusual talents.
Armchair Interviews says: The characters in this series are the story here--the relationships, and the way the community solves problems and people pull together.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: What Was The Point?
Review: I normally enjoy this series more than the Jane Jeffry series, which has gotten silly and boring...but this installment gave it a run for its money.
What was the point of this book? The murder seemed to be secondary to endless babbling about Robert and his postal center idea, or who was getting a dress hemmed at the tailor. The ending kind of came out of nowhere with no real reason. And the other mystery just seemed to be completely dropped without any explanation or resolution.
Though this series has two main characters, Lily has always seemed to come across as the star...but she was barely present in this one. And Robert has gotten exceptionally annoying. Does he have any purpose other than to drive around town showing off his car and bothering people while they're trying to make a living?
I hope the next installment is better or I'm done with this series.
Review Summary: Well-intentioned, but terrible
Review: I just read the Booklist review (at the top of this Amazon page) and saw the description of Churchill's "spare and eloquent" writing. To me, it sounded like it was written by a 12-year-old, for an audience of 8-year-olds. Based on the other reader reviews, it sounds like maybe the earlier entries in this series are better, but I didn't make it past the first chapter in this one.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Terrible "mystery", unedited, looks unfinished
Review: This looks like a draft. None of the characters you follow in the first few chapters appear in the last few chapters. Every sentence is noun, verb with no variation, no clauses. The first mystery, a teen girl's body in the garden, is completely ignored halfway through and never looked into! The second mystery, lots of cash in the bookcase is clearly a case of a manipulative lawyer scamming them, but never looked into again. The third crime seems to hinge on their only clue, it was done with a jeweler's wire. But this is never found nor attributed to the person arrested. And the running gag of trying to build a homemade post office at the station is not only pointless but also left hanging at the end.
None of the characters do anything natural. None of the dialog is worth hearing once, but it is repeated at least three times each (and once five times), apparently to fill the pages. Don't waste your time on this hack.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A children's book?
Review: I've read one other Churchill book, but was willing to give this one a go. It was light, and charming, but, I just don't get it. The style of the writing, with the repitition of main plot themes over and over; it just seemed either the author thought we needed to be retold a story over and over, or she just ran out of things to write.
Let me give an example. Early in the book we learn that 3 "biddies" were going through the mail, and they wanted to prevent certain letters from being delivered. As the plot progressed, the protagonist felt it was important to tell others about what happened. Follow me so far? Now, in most books, the author would have written "...and he told them about the incident he saw with the mail," but this author has him repeat the same story with the same details to each person he sees. And WE, poor readers, have to hear it all over again. Likewise for other important "clues," they are repeated in detail over and over again as if the reader is a child, and needs to be reminded of these not-very-complicated plot developments.
The mystery itself was mundane, and there is a whole "subplot" of burying up some bones that is not at all relevent to the book.
Nice sense of life during the depression era, though. And charming (although 1 dimentional) characters
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Another good book in this series
Review: This is the fifth in the A Grace and Favor Mystery series, and just as charming and fun as the previous titles.
Robert and Lily Brewster have been left the Grace and Favor mansion in rural New York by their Great Uncle Horatio. It is just after the stock market crash, and their privileged childhood has not prepared them for a life of searching for work and poverty.
Uncle Horatio had some odd conditions in his will; so they must live in the mansion with a number of other odd lodgers and their Great Uncle's property manager, Mr. Prinney. Police Chief Howard Walker moves into the mansion in this story, and he must deal a number of problems: a murdered railway clerk, an old skeleton found when some dead bushes are dug up on the mansion's grounds, hate crimes against the new tailor in the town of Voorberg, and some stolen library books. His new assistant, Deputy Ron Parker, proves to be a gem, with unusual talents.
Armchair Interviews says: The characters in this series are the story here--the relationships, and the way the community solves problems and people pull together.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: What Was The Point?
Review: I normally enjoy this series more than the Jane Jeffry series, which has gotten silly and boring...but this installment gave it a run for its money.
What was the point of this book? The murder seemed to be secondary to endless babbling about Robert and his postal center idea, or who was getting a dress hemmed at the tailor. The ending kind of came out of nowhere with no real reason. And the other mystery just seemed to be completely dropped without any explanation or resolution.
Though this series has two main characters, Lily has always seemed to come across as the star...but she was barely present in this one. And Robert has gotten exceptionally annoying. Does he have any purpose other than to drive around town showing off his car and bothering people while they're trying to make a living?
I hope the next installment is better or I'm done with this series.