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Loading... The Return of Captain John Emmett (2010)by Elizabeth Speller
 SuziQoregon | Mar 31, 2013 |  I liked this book. It was an easy read, but that didn't detract from the seriousness of the affects of WW1. The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton is also on my very long list of books I want to read. (  ) FionaWh | Nov 10, 2012 | Had come across a lot of recommendations on this book and borrowed from my local library. Really enjoyed the story and the characters were well portrayed. The author was able to capture the essence of what the soldiers suffered that served in WW1. Have now started reading the next book - The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton. ( ) missytack | Aug 18, 2012 | In a beautifully told mystery of the deaths of those servicemen involved in the execution of a British Officer in W.W.I. Elizabeth Speller has excelled in her debut novel. I was easily placed in the trenches along with the soldiers, in London, with those who remained behind and felt closely involved with her characters. I truly cared about them, even the not so nice ones. This paragraph really caught my eye: "I hadn't been idle since the war. I'd needed to do something. I'd met Philip Morrell many years before. My wife was a distant relation of Lady Ottoline, Morrell's wife." I found it very interesting to find those lines in this book. At any rate I highly recommend this read and gave it 4 out of 5 stars. ( ) rainpebble | Jul 17, 2012 | Several years after the end of the Great War, Laurence finds himself involved in a mystery. Asked by his childhood friends sister he attempts to investigate the supposed suicide of John Emmett. This is a very well written first novel, showing the atrocities and secrets of war as well as the effects of war on it's soldiers and those left at home. ( ) Beamis12 | Sep 29, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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Mary Emmett's brother John, an officer during the recently ended World War I, has apparently killed himself while in the care of a remote veterans' hospital, and Mary needs to know why. She contacts an old flame, Laurence Bartram, who has turned his back on the world to help her find answers.… (more)
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