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The Wood Beyond (Dalziel & Pascoe, #15)
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This is a hard book for me to review. It indirectly looks at the immense value of journal keeping, and I’m hard-core down with that. But it was a struggle to read in some instances.
A group of animal rights extremists have breached the security of a pharmaceutical company and accidentally stumble onto a set of old bones that go back to World War I. the coroner determines someone shot the dead guy, and now there’s a full-on case.
Peter Pascoe is at his grandmother’s funeral as the case opens. He and his sister deal with the last of the loose ends. One of those involves how to dispose of Granny’s ashes. While digging about among her things, Peter discovers an old journal that belonged to his great-grandfather, a British soldier in what Brits often refer to as “the Great War.”
His fascination with the journal and the final outcome of Great-
Grandpa draws him deeper into his brooding obsessed self, and soon, he and Andy Dalziel are at odds over his performance on the job.
Dalziel has his issues, too. He is instantly attracted to one of the animal rights protestors, Amanda Marvell who goes by the nickname Kap. It’s hard to know whether it’s Kap who appeals to Dalziel or her extremely well-endowed chest, but she returns the attraction. One day, he’s ardently pressing himself into Kap Marvell; a few days later, he’s arresting her. You can read this to see how things devolve.
Hill seems to write his books based on things happening in his society at the time of the writing. I assume there must have been discussions in the UK about whether the country should forgive those who deserted their brothers in arms in World War I. I don’t know whether those discussions dealt with rehabilitating the reputations of those the army court marshalled and executed, but that seems a theme here.
This was a little long, as has become this review, and because of the dreadful performance of the narrator, I had to slow this down to 2.12X. Naturally, that made it feel even longer.
A group of animal rights extremists have breached the security of a pharmaceutical company and accidentally stumble onto a set of old bones that go back to World War I. the coroner determines someone shot the dead guy, and now there’s a full-on case.
Peter Pascoe is at his grandmother’s funeral as the case opens. He and his sister deal with the last of the loose ends. One of those involves how to dispose of Granny’s ashes. While digging about among her things, Peter discovers an old journal that belonged to his great-grandfather, a British soldier in what Brits often refer to as “the Great War.”
His fascination with the journal and the final outcome of Great-
Grandpa draws him deeper into his brooding obsessed self, and soon, he and Andy Dalziel are at odds over his performance on the job.
Dalziel has his issues, too. He is instantly attracted to one of the animal rights protestors, Amanda Marvell who goes by the nickname Kap. It’s hard to know whether it’s Kap who appeals to Dalziel or her extremely well-endowed chest, but she returns the attraction. One day, he’s ardently pressing himself into Kap Marvell; a few days later, he’s arresting her. You can read this to see how things devolve.
Hill seems to write his books based on things happening in his society at the time of the writing. I assume there must have been discussions in the UK about whether the country should forgive those who deserted their brothers in arms in World War I. I don’t know whether those discussions dealt with rehabilitating the reputations of those the army court marshalled and executed, but that seems a theme here.
This was a little long, as has become this review, and because of the dreadful performance of the narrator, I had to slow this down to 2.12X. Naturally, that made it feel even longer.
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