Clouds Of Witness

The series continues as a delightful, albeit somewhat pretentious reference-wise. Solid in the genre and style.

4/5

I thought this book was fantastic, it pulled me in right away and kept me glued. Unfortunately the author felt the need at the end of the book to recap, step by step, the circumstances surrounding the crime. On the audiobook this lasted a full 25 minutes! It's as if the author was so concerned that readers grasp the full extent and intricacies of the plot that she couldn't just trust us to remember what had happened, but instead had to beat us over the head with a monologue summary. It absolutely left a bad last impression of an otherwise great book. Docking 2 full stars out of supreme irritation.

Short review: a classic murder mystery. This is much more subtle than what I thought it would be I started. There are too many people that could have committed the murder and had motive. In this case Lord Peter's brother is the prime suspect in the murder of Lord Peter's younger sister's fiance. And Lord Peter has to discover the truth of the matter.

The strength of Sayers' characters are that they seem to be real people and not the super human Sherlock Homes style detective. Personally this seems like a really good version of Castle, just set as a 1920s English Lord with PTSD.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/clouds-of-witness/

I like Dorothy Sayers. Her books are interesting and fun and laugh out loud hilarious at certain points. The only thing that bothers me is the dialogue when a person is supposed to have an accent and she writes it in that accent. I know it was all vogue to write that way back in the day but wow it drives me nuts. Nevertheless, I really liked the story and I can't help but love Peter Wimsey.