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Death in the Setting Sun (John Rawlings Mystery)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Allison & Busby (2004-09-01)
ISBN: 0749083654
EAN: 9780749083656
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Hardcover: 288 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Tenth Book in the Series
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-01-31
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Deryn Lake is a pseudonym of a well know historical novelist. Among the books she has written are the popular John Rawlings Mysteries, Death in the Peerless Pool, Death at the Apothecaries' hall, Death at the Devil's Tavern and others. As all of the titles are preceded by the word death, (unusual to say the least), this is a pretty good indication regarding the contents of the books and very good Georgian historical murder mysteries they are. `Deryn Lake' live near Hastings, in East Sussex
The character of John Rawlings has grown into an old and trusted friend and the author's clear and concise writing style makes the pages fly by. The books are good, well researched historical murder mysteries. They are easy reading and a welcome change from the crash, bang wallop of many of the books being published today. Good escapism for the reader, away from the bumps and grinds of everyday life
In this book John Rawling's loses his wife to a brutal killing, while they are both at a country house, where a play is taking place in which John's wife is taking part. Immediately following the play John goes out into the grounds to meet his wife, only to find her lying beneath a tree with a fatal stab wound. While he is cradling her in his arms other people arrive on he scene and immediately jump to the conclusion that John is the killer.
Rawling's is forcibly removed and locked in the cellar of the house but makes good his escape with the help of a young woman. After fleeing from the house and going to a place of safety for a few days john Rawlings dons a disguise and with the help of a lady friend returns to the scene vowing to find the perpetrator of the murder that his has left him a widower and his little girl asking for her mother . . .
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FANTASTIC
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-01-13
I am new to Deryn lake. This book makes you gasp, its rather sad in parts, thats how a piece of fiction should grab you. Wonderful aristocratic characters and I love the inclusion of Sir John Fielding, a real person living in the Georgian period, involved in the plots. Its wonderfully easy to read, once I start one of Deryn lake's books I cannot put it down. She is becoming one of my favourite authors.
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An emtional rollercoaster
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-06-30
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have read all of the previous John Rawlings books, and when I read this one all I can say is that I am glad I was reading it in the privacy of my own home. I shed a lot of tears reading this book as John is accused of a terrible murder and finds out who his true friends are. I can't wait for the next book to come out to find out what happens to him next.
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Deryn Lake - Still the Queen of the Georgian Whodunit
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-02-21
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
The John Rawlings novel Death in the Setting Sun continues to confim Deryn Lake in her position as Queen of the Georgian whodunit.This is the 10th John Rawlings and far from losing pace this story continues to confirm John Rawlings and "the blind Beak" Sir John Fielding as two of the most interesting and well written of "heroes" and thief takers. Ms Lake's characters are as ever well researched and brought to the page as well rounded and living beings. The story moves at a good pace keeping the reader "hooked" until the end. All aspects of this interesting period of English history are here and by the time you have finished each chapter the noise,dirt and colourful life of London in the late 1700s comes vividly to life. This time John Rawlings himself is under suspicion and the race to find the real killer has a hard edge for loss of his freedom will mean the loss of his child. Alongside this John meets again one of his most compelling of female suporters! A worthy successor to Death in the Valley of Shadows - I look forward to book number 12 and maybe the reapearance of an old flame or maybe a new love for John Rawlings.
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