Till Sudden Death Do Us Part
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A wedding. A murder. A 200-year-old curse: Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation when he answers an old friend’s call for help.
Although he hasn’t seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert’s daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she’ll fall prey to the ancient family curse.
Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope. With no clues, no evidence and no known motive, many locals believe the curse is responsible. Or is someone just using it as a smokescreen for murder? With the wedding due to take place the following day, Ishmael has just a few hours to uncover the truth.
But his investigations are hampered by sudden flashes of memory: memories of the time before he was human. What is it Ishmael’s former self is trying to tell him … ?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Green's thin seventh paranormal mystery featuring the disguised alien life-form who calls himself Ishmael Jones (after 2018's Murder in the Dark), Jones, the sole survivor of a "starship from God knows where" that crashed in England a half-century earlier, and his love interest, Penny Belcourt, who like him is a member of the Organization, a secret group devoted to "solving cases of the weird and uncanny," head to Yorkshire. There, Robert Bergin, an old friend of Jones from their days working for a different secret group, needs their help. The impending marriage of Bergin's daughter is a cause for concern, because of a legendary family curse that maintains an invisible demon will kill any Bergin bridegroom on his wedding night. Bergin has more than superstition to alarm him; someone has murdered the vicar who was slated to perform the ceremony. The author does a nice job of creating a spooky atmosphere, but the payoff is weak and Jones's wrestling with himself to keep his inner alien in check isn't well developed. Green fails to make the most of his unusual concept in this outing.
Customer Reviews
Too little. Too late.
Lots of filler. Too little of real interest. Seems like the setup for a more interesting next book.