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For decades, Catherine Aird's crime novels featuring C. D. Sloan have been beloved by fans and lauded by critics for their adroit plotting, playful wit, and literate charm. With Amendment of Life, Aird delivers the lively and engrossing novel that readers have come to rely upon. Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan of the Calleshire CID is used to the occasional oddity in his relatively quiet part of the English countryside. But lately things have taken a strange turn. First, in the center show more of a yew maze, a body is spotted by Miss Daphne Pedlinge, the elderly chatelaine of Aumerle Court. By the time the groundskeeper actually makes it to the center, he too spies the body, and it is indeed dead. Meanwhile, a few miles away, a slaughtered rabbit is left on the Bishop's doorstep in nearby Calleford, an omen as portentous as the body in the maze. Now Inspector Sloan, with the somewhat trying personage of Constable Crosby in tow, must uncover what precisely is going on as they launch an investigation with more twists and turns than the maze itself. show lessTags
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Deputy Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan and Constable Crosby, add in portentous omens and an enigmatic English Maze at the center of the plot, and we have a good, fast summer afternoon read. Crosby always good for a chuckle, Sloan for insight into detection, and Aird's nicely written fiction must be labeled, as always, enjoyable.
Reasonably good procedural mystery. Crosby and Sloan are always fun, but there's nothing special about this book. Solidly three stars, no more no less, and a very quick read.
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Catherine Aird is the author of more than twenty crime novels and story collections, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan. She holds an honorary M.A. from the University of Kent and was made an M.B.E. She lives in England
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- Canonical title
- Amendment of Life
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Pete Carter; Dilys Chomel; David Collins; James Collins; William Edward Crosby (Detective Constable); Hector Smithson Dabbe (Doctor) (show all 19); Sharon Gibbons; Harry Harpe (Detective Inspector, Happy Harry); Superintendent Leeyes; Eric Paterson; Amanda Pedlinge; Bevis Pedlinge; Daphne Pedlinge; Kenny Prickett; Jeremy Prosser (Pusher Prosser, Captain); Christopher Dennis Sloan (Detective Inspector, C. D., Seedy); Milly Smithers; Bertram Wallingford (Right Reverend, Bishop of Calleford); Mary Wallingford
- Important places
- Berebury, Calleshire, England, UK; Calleford, Calleshire, England, UK; Nether Hoystings, Calleshire, England, UK
- Dedication
- In Memoriam
K.W.E.G. - First words
- 'Toss you for it?' said Pete Carter.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'Not now we've seen the light.'
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