Accomplice
by Elizabeth Ironside
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Author: Elizabeth IronsideEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-01
ISBN: 1933397500
Number of pages: 356
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
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Book Review: so not a good read
Summary: 2 Stars
I see everybody here gave this 5 stars. You can disagree with me but I really did not like this book, especially when compared with Death in the Garden. I felt the author added a lot of unnecessary confusion, and seemed unable to decide whether she was writing a saga of the Russian nobility from the twilight of the Romanov empire to the present or a murder mystery. There is very little murder and mystery and by page 200 you've got nothing but someone's remains found in the garden. It's not even established that a crime was committed, and the eventual outcome is downright lame. I dont know where the author came up with the Russian idea, whether it is her own background or she made it up, but Dr. Zhivago this isn't. She has a lot of characters that don't further the story, and the family relationships are unnecessarily complex (stepchildren of stepchildren?).
An example of confusing, as well as making a big deal out of what turns out to be insignificant is the background of Al, the boyfriend of the main character's step-daughter-in-law's stepdaughter. At the start of the book, she refers to him as black. While this was originally published in the UK, to most American readers, this would indicate a person of African ancestry. Later, she tells us Al is Indian. That is Asian, not African. After that, Al tells Xenia he is Muslim and may be Pakistani. Pakistan was once part of India in the colonial days, but not for some time now. Near the end of the book, she refers to him having pale skin. The only point of all this is to show that Xenia, a Russian, has strong racial prejudices and would consider marriage to a non-Caucasian man to be less desirable. I think it should have been left out.
Most of the book dwells in the past, sometimes going back 200 years. A mystery (as this is marketed) should be tightly written with a plot that moves and clues for the reader. I got tired of this book long before the middle and I was very disappointed in the ending, which I won't reveal.
Summary of Accomplice
Jean Loftus has lived at Ashe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the garden, speak to an orderly, gracious, supremely English life. But when workmen unearth a skeleton from that garden, the skeletons from Jean's past begin rising to the surface. The life they speak of?a childhood in Revolutionary Russia, chaotic years as a refugee between the two world wars?was neither orderly nor English. Zita Daunsey, Jean's neighbor in this cozy Sussex town, would like to help Jean protect her secrets. But this task is made more difficult with the sudden arrival of a mysterious, aggressively inquisitive Russian student. What aging sin is Jean so anxious to conceal? And at what point does Zita become an accomplice to it?Literature & Fiction Books
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