Wednesday, December 8, 2010

A-Z Wednesday! The Letter R



It's A-Z Wednesday! Hosted by Reading at the Beach. To join in, here's all you have to do.

*Go to your stack of books and find an author whose first or last name starts with the letter of the week.

*Post:
1~ a photo of the book
2~ title & synopsis
3~ a link (amazon, barnes & noble, etc)
4~ go back to Reading at the Beach and link up your post

My choice this week is Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn (click title for review).

Info from Amazon:


Publisher: Mira; Original edition (October 1, 2010)
Language:
English
ISBN-10:
0778328201
ISBN-13: 978-0778328209 Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Historical Mystery


Synopsis: Set in 1889, Raybourn's sharp, surprising fourth Lady Julia Grey novel (after Silent on the Moor) finds Julia thoroughly enjoying her honeymoon with her detective husband, Nicholas Brisbane, in the Himalayas, where her brother, Plum, and sister, Portia, show up unexpectedly with startling news. Portia's former lover, Jane Cavendish, is convinced that her husband, Freddie, has been murdered in India. Brisbane, who reluctantly joins his wife and her siblings in their search for Freddie's killer, gets quickly drawn into a web of intrigue that's long on suspects and short on evidence. The mystery deepens as Grey and Brisbane explore India's colonial tensions and realize that everyone has a motive for murder. Raybourn skillfully balances humor and earnest, deadly drama, creating well-drawn characters and a rich setting. New readers may want to go back and start with the series debut, Silent in the Grave, which won an Agatha Award.

4 comments:

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

Ooh, I haven't read any of these books, but this one sounds fabulous. I love that cover, too!

Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.

gautami tripathy said...

What a cover. And my kind of read!

Here is my R author!

Nise' said...

Love this series. Have not read this one yet though.

fredamans said...

This is on my wish list.

http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-z-starts-with-r.html