Til Death Do Us Part
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Publisher Description
The new ‘Constable Thomas Potts’ historical mystery.
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Matrimony. An Officer of the Honourable East India Company is greatly desirous of finding a soul-mate to share his life and fortune. Lonely spinster Phoebe Creswell responds to an advertisement in the Worcester Herald, but are the outwardly charming Major Christophe de Langlois and his companion, the Reverend Geraint Winward, really who and what they seem?
Distracted by his own new bride and a spate of dog thefts, will Constable Thomas Potts be able to uncover the truth about the Rev Winward and Major de Langlois in time to save Phoebe from a gruesome fate?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1828 Lincolnshire, Fraser's fifth Constable Thomas Potts mystery (after 2011's Suffer the Children) has its moments, but not enough of them to draw in newcomers with no emotional investment in the characters. Potts's marriage to barmaid Amy Danks gets off to a bad start at their wedding reception when his crotchety mother accuses him of wanting to send her to the poorhouse. The ongoing tension between the two women in his life makes attending to his constable duties a welcome relief. Potts has to solve some less-than-compelling puzzles, involving scam artists using personal advertisements to bilk women out of their savings and dogs being kidnapped and killed for their pelts, among others. The frequent interior monologues come off as calculated speechifying but Fraser (the pen name of Roy Clews) does a nice job of describing the seamier aspects of early 19th-century English life, although he doesn't put enough in front of that backdrop.
