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| Title | : | The Strings of Murder (Frey & McGray #1) |
| Author | : | Oscar de Muriel |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 407 pages |
| Published | : | February 12th 2015 by Penguin |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime. Fiction. Thriller |
Oscar de Muriel
Paperback | Pages: 407 pages Rating: 3.89 | 2917 Users | 513 Reviews
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A spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror - perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Jonathan Creek.Edinburgh, 1888. A virtuoso violinist is brutally killed in his home. Black magic symbols cover the walls. The dead man's maid swears she heard three musicians playing before the murder.
But with no way in or out of the locked practice room, the puzzle makes no sense...
Fearing a national panic over a copycat Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult. However, Frey's new boss - Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray - actually believes in such nonsense.
McGray's tragic past has driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit that this case seems beyond reason. And once someone loses all reason, who knows what they will lose next...
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| ISBN: | 071817982X (ISBN13: 9780718179823) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Frey & McGray #1 |
| Characters: | Inspector Ian Frey, Dectective "Nine-Nails" McGray, Pansy McGray |
| Setting: | Edinburgh, Scotland,1888 |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 2917 Users | 513 ReviewsAssessment Regarding Books The Strings of Murder (Frey & McGray #1)
Inspector Ian Frey of Scotland Yard is sent to Edinburgh to help with the investigations into what may be a copycat basing his murders on those of Jack the Ripper. Frey has many reasons for wanting to be away from London, but really doesnt want to be in Scotland. He must join a new police department run by Detective Nine-Nails McGray who believes in psychics and supernatural sources for crime, and who has sorrows of his own. Together these two very different men must investigate a series ofHaving foolishly read two 800+ page books in a row (ughhhh), I turned to the Strings of Murder in the hope of something light, engaging, easy to follow, and funny that I could read in just a couple of days. Normally, whenever I find myself in a reading slump, historical fiction is just the thing to cure it, and I assumed that this book with its absolutely gorgeous cover design would be no different. Alas, I was wrong. This book is... bad. Not terrible exactly; I can fully understand why other
This was a good, if gruesome criminal mystery, that took place in Scotland during Victorian times. I was in the mood for solving a challenging murder case along with the detectives, and I had one here. But I wasn't prepared for a grisly string of murders to take place, no pun intended. So I ignored the gore and, as usual, I concentrated on the main characters which I found engaging, both separately and even more so when thrown together. It begins in London in 1888 when Jack the Ripper is on the
Disgraced inspector Ian Frey is sent to Edinburgh to investigate the brutal death of a violinist. The violinist was killed in a locked room and there is no way out or in and the walls are covered with magic symbols.I wish more books were like this; fast-paced, interesting and with short chapters. With short chapters, I'm like "OK, just one more chapter"...and 1-2 hours later 1/3 of the book is done. Anyway, the mystery in this book was interesting and I like that the main characters Ian Frey and
The authors love of, and passion for, Victorian crime fiction comes shining through the book, garnered by his childhood reading, growing up in Mexico, of Sherlock Holmes. He recreates with ease all the sights, smells and atmosphere of London and Edinburgh, as the story pivots between the slums and gentrified locales of both cities during this period. Indeed, sometimes the writing is realistic enough of the lowdown dirty streets, to make your nose wrinkle, as our indomitable detectives, Frey and
February 2015This blurb of this debut historical crime novel reeled me in by describing it as 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell meets Jonathan Creek, which sounds like just about the most exciting thing of all time. Perhaps if that hadnt pushed my expectations sky-high, I wouldnt have been quite so disappointed when it turned out to be clumsily written and not a bit compelling.
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