A Drink of Deadly Wine

by Kate Charles

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Father Gabriel Neville has everything going for him as vicar of St Anne's, Kensington Gardens: intellectual prowess, physical beauty, a happy family life and the prospect of promotion to Archdeacon. But his perfect world is shattered when he receives an anonymous letter that has the power to destroy his career and marriage, by threatening to expose something that no one could possibly know. The only person Gabriel can turn to is David Middleton-Brown, an old friend and a man with a few show more secrets of his own. Against his better judgement, David comes to London, where his discreet enquiries bring t show less

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Gabriel Neville, parish priest at St. Anne's, Kensington Gardens, is hoping to be promoted to Archdeacon, when he receives a letter threatening to expose his involvement in events leading to the suicide of a young man ten years before when he was a curate in Brighton. Gabriel calls on another figure from his Brighton days, David Middleton-Brown, to help him track down the blackmailer before he is exposed.

A great start to a new-to-me series that I just couldn't put down.
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2.5 stars. I was looking for a new mystery series to get into, but this book was underwhelming. Prose was much too flowery, dialogue was weak, and the mystery didn't hold up. It held my interest enough to finish it, so it wasn't terrible, but I was distracted by the thousands of adjectives and adverbs substituting for good storytelling.

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Canonical title
A Drink of Deadly Wine
Original publication date
1992
People/Characters
Lucy Kingsley; David Middleton-Brown; Gabriel Neville
Important places
London, England, UK

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6053 .H37214 .D5Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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