R E K. (bigstone) - , reviewed The House of Green Turf (Inspector Felse, Bk 8) on + 1443 more book reviews
I have read several books by Ellis Peters but this is the first with Inspector George Felse who takes almost a backseat in the story. There is Maggie Tressider, a famous singer has a serious automobile accident from which she emerges with a âdreamâ haunting her. A ghostly man appears telling her she killed him. She recalls nothing about him. Has she caused the death of her passenger? No, he had far fewer injuries.
As she recovers from injuries the dream continues she fails to gain weight and thrive. Her worried surgeon suggests that she hire someone to search her past. She chooses Francis Killian, an undistinguished private investigator. His search leads him to a small resort town in Austria. Maggie recalls that very early in her career a young man had fallen in love with her here. When she turned his affections aside, he ran from her. She heard a splash. Would he have drowned in the lake? Believing this is the ghostly man who haunters her she ends Killian's services but he is not satisfied and continues investigating.
Meanwhile, Inspector Felse has been following Killianâs travels . There have been other unsolved disappearances and possible deaths in the area bordering Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Could they be linked to Maggie's experience? When Maggie returns to the hotel where she once stayed she and Killian are thrown together only to encounter a killer.
This is a delightfully intriguing mystery, the the eighth featuring Felse. Those I read previously had a more visible character named Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine mone who lived in a Shrewsbury Abbey in 12th Century England. Now I need to find those featuring Felise.
As she recovers from injuries the dream continues she fails to gain weight and thrive. Her worried surgeon suggests that she hire someone to search her past. She chooses Francis Killian, an undistinguished private investigator. His search leads him to a small resort town in Austria. Maggie recalls that very early in her career a young man had fallen in love with her here. When she turned his affections aside, he ran from her. She heard a splash. Would he have drowned in the lake? Believing this is the ghostly man who haunters her she ends Killian's services but he is not satisfied and continues investigating.
Meanwhile, Inspector Felse has been following Killianâs travels . There have been other unsolved disappearances and possible deaths in the area bordering Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Could they be linked to Maggie's experience? When Maggie returns to the hotel where she once stayed she and Killian are thrown together only to encounter a killer.
This is a delightfully intriguing mystery, the the eighth featuring Felse. Those I read previously had a more visible character named Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine mone who lived in a Shrewsbury Abbey in 12th Century England. Now I need to find those featuring Felise.
Thomas F. (hardtack) -
While interesting, and I read it within a couple of days, I personally didn't think this was one of her best in the series.
