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Summary: Characters and place are a delightful combination!
Review: Prior to Anything Goes, the first book in the Grace and Favor series, Jill Churchill, was well known for her Jane Jeffrey mysteries. While I moderately enjoyed titles like Grime and Punishment or Silence of the Hams which featured a suburban mother of three turned detective, I found the blurbs for Antything Goes quite intriguing. And now that I've read it, I must say Anything Goes, is a delightful and fun read even if you don't always favor murder mysteries.Lily Brewser and her brother, Robert, are unfortunate vitims of the Depression. Born to wealthy parents they lived a life of luxury until that fateful day when the market crashed and their father committed suicide. Working at tiresome jobs and sharing a small apartment in Manhattan, they experience great difficulties in making ends meet. Then they are informed that their great-uncle died recently and left them his large home on the Hudson. On their first visit, not only do they meet a cast of characters that either come with the house or live nearby, but they also learn the terms of the inheritance of this Grace and Favor home. Grace and Favor is an English term which refers to living in a home and maintaining it for a period of time after which you totally inherit the house. And as the Brewsters feared they cannot sell the house for a very long time if ever. There is the requisite murder which involves their great uncle and a growing affection for Lily on the part of an area newspaperman. Just the other day I came across the second book in this series called, In the Still of the Night, which was recently published. Now I can't decide whether to gulp it down immediately or wait for a lazy summer's day.
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Summary: Wonderful new series and a must read
Review: This book provides great new characters, interesting plot and was as enjoyable as the Jane Jeffrey series. This book makes you only want Ms. Churchill to hurry up with more
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Summary: Another ere visited for those who like period mysteries
Review: This book was so entertaining, not only for the mystery, but also for the characters and the era in which it was placed. I am frustrated that there hasn't been a second one in this series yet. Simply loads of fun as well as a good mystery.
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Summary: A charming cozy
Review: This is my first Churchill experience and I loved it. The protagonists are fun and charming. She has created a totally delicious world for them to inhabit with vivid interesting characters. The plot was just right too. A couple of murders to solve of course, and with enough clues for the reader to have a fair chance at figuring it out and enough misleading clues to keep it interesting. Its a classic cozy, just right in every way.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: This was the first Jill Churchill book I had ever read, and I had no idea that she had a Jane Jeffry series. Now that I'm on the lookout for more books in both series, I've found some good rainy-day reading. I recommend these books to anyone who doesn't necessarily like gory details but enjoys a good murder mystery. All Jill Churchill books that I've read are wonderful and I'm in the middle of 'Fear of Frying'. Happy reading!
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Summary: Churchill does it again!
Review: Though I typically don't read historical mysteries, I picked this one up solely because I've loved all of Churchill's other novels. This one is definitely worth the read. The characters are realistic and the plot intriguing! Jill Churchill has done it again!
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Summary: Hilarious 30's Romp
Review: Twenty-four year old socialite Lily Brewster and her brother Robert, two years older, are victims of the stock market crash of 1929. Their family money is gone, their father commits suicide. Forced into the practically non-existent job market with little skills and no experience, Lily finds a job in a bank sorting checks, a job she hates. Robert becomes a paid escort or, when the opportunity arises, the maitre d' in one of the posh restaurants such as Café Savarin, Fraunces Tavern, Luchow's, or Algonquin, that have survived the Depression. Rescue from their pitiful existence comes in the form of an entailed inheritance from their Great Uncle Horatio who deeds them his mansion, renamed Grace and Favor Cottage, and his millions if they make Voorburg-on-Hudson their home for ten years. Confirmed New Yorkers, they view this clause as nothing less than exile. However, circumstances being what they are, Lily and Robert take up residence and soon are investigating Uncle Horatio's death, one which looks more and more like murder each day. Anything Goes is a delightful first in a new series with a strong heroine and an endearing hero.
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Summary: Fun, Fun, Fun
Review: What a wonderful addition to Jill Churchill's Jeffrey books. And a rather different situtation--sister and brother set in the early part of the 20th century. Reminds me of Tommy and Tuppence that Agatha Christie wrote. Can't wait for more in this fabulous new series. Lots of fun to read and they take you away from everyday life for a few minutes. Good clues and plot.
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Summary: Love the book! Great new series!
Review: When a brother and sister who have lost all their family wealth in the Crash of 1929 discover they have inherited their Great Uncle Horatio's rural New York mansion, Honeysuckle Cottage, they also learn that their uncle's will requires them to reside in the mansion for ten years before the house is actually theirs. Also, Great Uncle Horatio, who supposedly drowned in a boating accident, may actually have been murdered. The two lead characters set out to discover the truth about their uncle's death. Jill Churchill has begun a wonderful new series set in the 1930's, and I hope the next book is out soon.
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