A seamless interweaving of past and present (the Englands of Elizabeths I and II)
Hill’s last novel and he was still at the top of his form. Great characters in Sam, Mig, and Hill’s native Cumbria, two — or is it three — maybe four, actually, now that I count up — mysteries and two murders to solve, and a seamless interweaving of past and present (the Englands of Elizabeths I and II). Maybe the denouement is a little over the top, but who cares when you find lines like this on every page:
She liked it best when they got to the old sepia photos where the men had beards or heavy moustaches and the women wore long dresses and everyone looked like they’d been shot and taken to a taxidermist.
I’ve got that same family album.
Yes, the old tintypes. I too have those family photos.
Me too! So wish I’d appreciated them more as I was growing up, so many more of them and the amazing people in them, and their stories too simply disappearing over the years …,