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A review by raehink
Ashworth Hall by Anne Perry
3.0
The Pitts are at Emily and Jack's country house while a group of Irish and English representatives are working toward peace. But it's hard to compromise when people are being murdered--and it's a good thing Pitt is there to solve the crimes.
Although this is not my favorite Pitt mystery (mostly because of the political atmosphere), I did enjoy it (Perry at her worst is still good) and was able to figure out most of the whodunit well before the end of the book.
It's a sad country, Gracie Phipps, but it's the most beautiful God ever made. There's a wildness to it, a richness of color, a sweetness on the wind you couldn't know unless you'd smelled it. It's a very old land, where once heroes and saints and scholars lived, and now the memory of those days aches in the color of the earth, the standing stones, the trees against the sky, the sound of a storm. But there's no peace in it now. Its children go cold and hungry, and the land belongs to strangers. (37)
Although this is not my favorite Pitt mystery (mostly because of the political atmosphere), I did enjoy it (Perry at her worst is still good) and was able to figure out most of the whodunit well before the end of the book.
It's a sad country, Gracie Phipps, but it's the most beautiful God ever made. There's a wildness to it, a richness of color, a sweetness on the wind you couldn't know unless you'd smelled it. It's a very old land, where once heroes and saints and scholars lived, and now the memory of those days aches in the color of the earth, the standing stones, the trees against the sky, the sound of a storm. But there's no peace in it now. Its children go cold and hungry, and the land belongs to strangers. (37)