The Grey Beginning
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4.0 • 14 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Devastated by her husband's death, Kathy Malone has traveled to his childhood home, hoping to come to terms with the recent tragedy. Here in the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, she seeks solace—and discovers something sinister instead. Befriending a lonely boy named Pietro—accepting the chilly hospitality of the aristocratic Contessa Morandini—Kathy begins to uncover the pieces of an ominous puzzle and hints of a deadly obsession. And now she has stumbled upon a murderous plot that could cost Kathy her life—for it was meant to stay hidden . . . forever.
Customer Reviews
Grand Mastery
What you get from Barbara Michaels is everything classic and the normal tropes of her long eras of writing.
What you gain is amusement from the original cozy mystery suspense writer.
The Grey Beginning is one of the best. The heroine barrels along making amateur guesses and tormenting herself with inaccurate assumptions (she is just 24 years old). By the time she realizes she doesn’t have all the tools or puzzle pieces, it doesn’t matter to her anymore. She has saved the one important person in this tale of subterfuge and murder and doesn’t give a fig about the rest.
Cozy writers amuse me, but Michaels (aka Elizabeth Peters) keeps me guessing and always holds one more card up her sleeve. That’s what keeps that Grand Master title firmly in place even in today’s reading market.
Enjoyable
Enjoyable read that was hard to put down.