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The Grass Widow's Tale (1968)

by Ellis Peters

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"Listen to who's talking. I'm not the one who goes hobnobbing with gunmen & such." Such is Bunty Felse's light-hearted reply to her husband's parting words of caution, when George is called away to London on urgent police business. To shake off the black mood, she goes out to the local pub - where a chance meeting with a distraught stranger proves that her farewell words to George were horribly mistaken. Caught up in a terrifying situation, Bunty struggles desperately to hold on to her life… (more)
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I have only know Ellis Peters from her Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, didn't even know she wrote a long series of contemporary mysteries. Ellis Peters is a pen name. The Grass Widows Tale felt so dated at first that I was not sure I could follow it. But it's 1960s setting is really no different than reading a story set in any other era, though it was contemporary when it was written. Like any good novel it contained some surprises and some suspense. I may read the rest of the series. ( )
  MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 |
I like this one - Bunty makes an excellent protagonist. This story has the most magnificently and comprehensively depressing beginning of any book I've read and actually liked. Bunty's small mid-life crisis leads her to a connection with a young man who has his own problems - and she figures out that they are not at all what he thinks they are. Then things get dangerous. No unlikely heroics, here - the heroics are very reasonable, both physically and emotionally. Lovely story, very rich. I've read it several times before and likely will again. ( )
  jjmcgaffey | Nov 12, 2019 |
THis is primarily about Felse's very nice wife Bunty. While George Felse is away in London, Bunty becomes involved with a dangerous criminal whom she very effectively thwarts. ( )
  antiquary | Sep 26, 2015 |
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"Listen to who's talking. I'm not the one who goes hobnobbing with gunmen & such." Such is Bunty Felse's light-hearted reply to her husband's parting words of caution, when George is called away to London on urgent police business. To shake off the black mood, she goes out to the local pub - where a chance meeting with a distraught stranger proves that her farewell words to George were horribly mistaken. Caught up in a terrifying situation, Bunty struggles desperately to hold on to her life

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When George Felse finds himself called away to London on urgent police business, his wife Bunty is left alone feeling depressed on the eve of her 41st birthday. To shake off her black mood she goes out to the local pub where a chance meeting places her in deadly danger.
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