Amendment of life

Amendment of life

Catherine Aird

Book - 2003

When a body is found in the center of a Tudor-era yew maze, Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan is placed in charge of a disturbingly complex case.

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Sloan, C. D. > (Fictitious character)
Police > Great Britain > Fiction.
Police.
Great Britain.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Mystery fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Published
New York : St. Martin's Minotaur 2003.
Language
English
Main Author
Catherine Aird (-)
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed
Physical Description
196 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780312290801
  • Critical Praise for Catherine Aird "
  • Written with Catherine Aird's characteristic brisk wit...the knotty plot is sufficiently tangled that it's a pleasure watching Sloan unravel it." --
  • Orlando Sentinel on Stiff News "
  • There are serious issues at the root of the plot but Aird's touch is as lightly comic as her plot is deftly cunning." --
  • Jon L. Breen, Ellery Queen's
  • Mystery Magazine on Stiff News "
  • A mystery as solid as any Inspector Sloan has ever encountered
  • A well-plotted resolution and a solid tale." --
  • Chicago Sun-Times on A Going Concern "Another lively adventure.... For those who like quiet British procedurals, with the emphasis more on wit and sly turns of phrase than on mean streets, Aird's series is sure to please." --
  • Booklist on Little Knell "
  • Intricate, witty, and thoroughly delightful...a literate, surprising treat." --
  • Publishers Weekly on A Going Concern (starred review) "
  • Quality writing from a practiced hand." --
  • Library Journal on After Effects "
  • Witty and clever." --
  • Des Moines Register on A Going Concern
Review by Booklist Review

Aird's contemporary British cozies display excellent, engaging dialogue as well as plots handled with deft, no-nonsense trajectory. If Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is less than a vivid presence, some of the other characters make up for it. In this one, it is the redoubtable Daphne Pedlinge. From her wheelchair on an upper floor of Aumerle Court, she keeps an eagle eye on the Tudor yew maze that folks pay to enter and wander in, and it is she who spots the body first. Meanwhile, David Collins, half of Double Felix, a lighting firm contracted to do sound and light for the maze as well as for the close of the bishop of Calleford, is supremely distracted by the illness of his small son. When the body in the maze turns out to be Mrs. Collins, Sloan works out a maze of his own through the charming bishop and his sensible wife, the sharp Miss Daphne, and the denizens of the Berebury Police Station. Nicely crafted and very winning. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Last seen in Little Knell (2001), DI C.D. Sloan, "head of the tiny Criminal Investigation Department of `F' Division of the County of Calleshire Constabulary," looks into the murder of a woman found at the center of a Tudor-period maze. Catherine Aird's breezy Amendment of Life provides an intricate puzzle worthy of the always entertaining Inspector Sloan. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Library Journal Review

Like Kathryn Swinbrooke (see C.L. Grace's A Maze of Murders, reviewed above), Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan investigates a body found at the center of a Tudor-era maze. Series fans, especially, will appreciate this excellent procedural addition. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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