Into the Thinnest of Air
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Dinner at an ancient Cornish inn leads to one baffling disappearance after another in the latest intriguing Ishmael Jones mystery.
“It’s just a nice weekend, in a nice country inn. Nothing bad is going to happen …”
Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are attending the re-opening of Tyrone’s Castle, an ancient Cornish inn originally built by smugglers. Over dinner that night, the guests entertain one another with ghost stories inspired by local legends and superstitions. But it would appear that the curse of Tyrone’s Castle has struck for real when one of their number disappears into thin air. And then another . . .
Is the inn really subject to an ancient curse? Skeptical of ghost stories, Ishmael believes the key to the mystery lies in the present rather than the past. But with no bodies, no evidence and no clues to go on, how can he prove it?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Green's claustrophobic fifth Ishmael Jones mystery (after Death Shall Come), Jones, who works for the mysterious Organization, and Penny Belcourt, his lover and investigative partner, leave London for a weekend in Cornwall, where Penny has been invited by family friends to celebrate the reopening of Tyrone's Castle, an inn with a sinister past: in 1886, the inn's then-owner, Eliot Tyrone, poisoned all his guests on Christmas because "the Voices" told him to do so. The couple are among six guests at the festivities, which soon turn horrifying as one after another of them disappears without a trace. Green does a masterly job of making the characters' fears palpable and maintaining suspense, until the cop-out of an ending. This entry also makes little use of the fact that Jones is an alien whose spaceship crashed in an English field in 1963 and was remade into a human being who never ages by the ship's "transformation machines." Series fans will hope for better next time.
