| Title | : | The Saltwater Murder (Posie Parker Mystery #7) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 237 |
| Publication | : | First published May 21, 2019 |
London, 1924
Posie Parker has been called to her most baffling case yet.
Amyas Lyle, London’s top young lawyer, has been found with his head in a box of poisoned saltwater.
It’s the perfect murder. But who hated him enough to do such a thing?
Following a trail of strange notes, all of which speak of the sea, and saltwater, Posie travels from London to the seaside resort of Whitley Bay, looking for answers. But nothing can prepare her for what she finds there.
Can Posie find Amyas Lyle’s cold-blooded killer before further deaths take place? Can she protect those Amyas has left behind?
As Britain celebrates an Olympic summer, will Posie manage to enjoy a holiday romance of her own? And just what is wrong with Inspector Lovelace? Why is he behaving so oddly? Is it anything to do with his new, smart appearance and some very carefully starched shirt collars?
This is a classic murder mystery which will appeal to fans of Agatha Christie and Downton Abbey. The Saltwater Murder is full of intrigue and red herrings, and is the seventh book in the delightfully classic Posie Parker Mystery Series, although this novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story in its own right. A clean read, with no graphic violence, sex or strong language.
The Saltwater Murder (Posie Parker Mystery #7) Reviews
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Another fabulous Posie Parker mystery! I really enjoyed the character development in this one, and there were so many interesting characters!
I'm almost crying over the ending.... FINALLY Posie gets her happy ending. I wish it had been longer, there was so much more she could've added. I appreciate the suspense of making the reader wait until the very end to find out about Posie and the Inspector... but it was sad to have so little of that relationship.
Please do at least one more so we can see them together as a couple!! Now I have to go reread the end of the last one to make sense of that ending that left me hanging!! -
One of the best books of the series. After reading the last book, Murder in Venice, I wasn’t sure if there would be any more Posie books, and if there were, if I would read them. I was so disappointed in the last book. But this book was great...good mystery, good characters. And, I think that Posie has sorted herself out personally, after many false starts.
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This is another excellent addition to the Posie Parker canon. While complete in itself, it also seems to round out parts of the very long story arc. The book opens in the Olympic summer of 1924 with a gruesome murder by an unusual method. Posie is in good form here through the investigation, and the twists along the way were unexpected. There is a good deal of development in several relationships among the various characters in the book; and the ending quite satisfied me.
I'm fairly sure it's an indie publication like the previous volumes. As usual with Hathaway's novels, the prose is facile and the editing top-notch. I.e., I found no typographical errors or infelicities to speak of.
Oh, just by the way. This series is an example of me the reader totally taking the bait, hook, line, sinker, and so forth. I obtained the first of the series for zero money on a freebie day; and I've regularly purchased the rest of the series at retail price, and Posie is on my buy-on-sight list. So this was a big multi-year win for the author who gave away that free sample back in 2015. -
To be honest, I'm getting tired of every handsome stranger ending up being either a murderer or dead, just to push Posie and the inspector together. And I'm pretty sure Sergeant Rainbird was already married some 3 books ago, so how on earth is he dating Prudence now? I think the author lost interest in things she had set up earlier (like the fortune teller saying that Alaric and Posie will have kids together) and is just pushing her own agenda with very little regard to how the story would naturally flow. AND I haven't heard anything about Count De La Rosa in ages! What happened to him? He used to show up in every book completely uninvited.
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An intriguing read through parts but like many in this genre it really struggled to stick the landing.
A slow build up with meticulous bread crumbs laid was undone but a rapid ripping off of the band-aid. It felt like a TV series that finds out it’s getting cancelled a season ahead of what was planned and needs to wrap up every story line in one episode. -
SO GOOD. Right when you think you’ve cleverly figured out the twist .... L.B. Hathaway twists the twist. Can’t wait for book #8.
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Gripping, salty and full of historical flavour
I read this in half a day, and was so caught up in the story I almost missed the supermarket opening hours. The story is excellent, full of complex and individual characters, and the action moves apace. The description of post WW1 Britain is intelligent and full of factual places and settings. The footnotes at the end of the novel detailing the true facts, those slightly amended for fictional purposes, and those just made up greatly enhance the reading experience, and offer several areas of further research for those interested in history and some little known but odd occurrences.
I would highly recommend this to all fans of authors such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and more recently Kerry Greenwood of Miss Phryne Fisher fame.
This is the first of the Posie Parker mysteries that I have read. I will now have to go and get the rest, starting with book 1 (trying to forget all the spoilers for the earlier books I just read 🤣). I would therefore recommend starting at the beginning of the series to enjoy the ongoing background story arcs.
5 out of 5 yellow umbrellas 🌂 -
My favorite Posey book so far!
I was so disappointed when the last book ended with the death of her fiancé, and then the tease of the epilogue. This was a wonderful way to continue the series. I hope there will be more. -
great mystery. hated the good/bad guy
sure, he had good qualities, but not enough. didn’t see the bad guy coming. they left something out for us that, had we had it, we could have solved the mystery too. still a good mystery. -
This series just gets better and better! Posie is a breath of fresh air.
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The Posie Parker series has gotten better over time, and this is one of the better mysteries in the series. Although the characters are not always as complex as I would like, the general historical context—in this one the Paris Olympics of 1924 and the rise of the British fascist party play important roles. The first murder is ingenious and awful, but helps to set up the victim as simultaneously aggressively ambitious, but secretly working for the British government. There are drugs, illegitimate children, and a satisfying conclusion to the romance of Posie and Inspector Lovelace. Recommended.
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Posy Parker
What a wonderful series of books, written so beautifully and capturing attention into the wee hours of the night. I love how L.B. describes everything so that you almost feel as if you were there; the scents, the clothes! the buildings, the furnishings, the way places make you feel! Also, even the weather, the feelings - good and not-so-good of our protagonist, and her friends, and even her foes!
Highly recommend. Start with book one, and I just know you will just keep going, as I have. I’m waiting for #8 with bated breathe -
L.B. Hathaway is back on form with a mystery in which just about everyone you meet could plausibly be the killer. From timely political concerns (Parker crosses paths with the early British Fascist party) to a thoughtful revelation of the victim's true character, the book has all the ingredients of a satisfying detective story.
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The plot itself isn't horrible, but everything else in this novel suggests that L.B. Hathaway is an alien with a low opinion of human intelligence and only a tenuous grasp of human behavior.
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In the Shoes of Agatha!
A most delightful, entertaining and cozy read.
It is a very English book, which deals with horrendous crimes against persons and humanity but the author does not push them into the reader’s face. Everything is done nicely, and in the author’s eloquent, flowing prose.
The author tells us in her end piece of her devotion to Agatha Christie and it shows in the story: private detective helping a police officer to solve a crime; the 1920’s period; the character, layout and form of the story – with everybody congregating in the meeting room at Lincoln’s Inn Fields for the surprising denouement – with a delicious and heart warming twist at the end.
At the junctions of fiction with fact, the author has been careful to maintain the true factual picture of those times. In that respect, at the very end of the book, she gives the reader a chapter-by-chapter explanation of the true history of the place and time and where fiction takes over. I really enjoyed this book – almost as much as a real Christie – I can picture me reading more Hathaway’s in future -
The Saltwater Murder
Posie meets one of her late brother's school mates after fifteen years, only for him to be murdered. As Posie helps the police with the case she discovers the murder victim was a complex man with secrets galore.
L B Hathaway has written another fantastic mystery. With each book the central characters become stronger and each story better than the last.
Highly recommended. -
Pixie Parker - fantastic
I love this series! This one is about not taking first impressions or opinions at face value. An horrific murder of a incredibly successful and ambitious barrister, just achieving accession to high court judge. In investigating the crime, both the character and his complicated personal relationships come to light. Great plot, involving characters - can Poke and Lovelace get to the bottom of it?
