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Loading... The Music of the Spheres (original 2001; edition 2002)by Elizabeth Redfern
Work InformationThe Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern (2001)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |   enough original elements to make it a more than worthwhile read. Jonathan Absey is a government clerk whose career has not been going very well since he went out on a limb to get his estranged brother a pardon for homosexual acts - and it's gone from bad to worse as he becomes obsessed with finding the killer of his daughter. Since the girl, also estranged, was a prostitute at the time, he's officially discouraged from pursuing the case... but when more and more women of his daughter's description keep turning up dead, it's hard for him to concentrate on his offical assignment: scouring the mails for signs of French espionage. But both murders and spies seem to lead to a group of odd and enigmatic astronomers, obsessed with finding a new planet that they call Selene. Cover-ups, betrayals, madness, perversion and violence will ensue before all is revealed in this dark and gripping mystery. (  ) AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |  ) SabinaE | Jan 23, 2016 | ) RachelNF | Jan 15, 2016 |  ) maryreinert | Aug 16, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch these spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the still unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter on these same streets. Desperately pursuing both investigations, he stumbles across a strange society of astronomers called the Company of Titius who are on a furious search of their own: to discover a long-lost star in the wide black sky. As he digs into their arcane world, their quest begins to merge with his own, and Absey finds himself discovering more than he had ever imagined -- not only about spies and murderers but also about celestial numbers and the making of codes; about passions as unnatural as they are obsessive; and about the bonds of family...and the lengths we will go to preserve them. With "The Music of the Spheres," Elizabeth Redfern emerges asan evocative and elegant writer of startling power, her gifts for characterization, atmosphere, narrative, and rich moral drama marking her as a No library descriptions found. |
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I found the sexual threads unnecessary and distracting. Why must so many of the characters be deviants? Why and how does Augustine wield so much power over so many? Nothing in the story leads me to a reasonable understanding of this.
This novel is ok. What makes me sad is that I think it is just steps away from being good. I doubt I would select another of her books. Time is an investment and this did not have enough of a payoff in my view. (