Angel with Two Faces: A Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey [Hardcover]

Nicola Upson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Harper; Book Club Edition edition (2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061451568
• ISBN-13: 978-0061451560
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,018,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointing and mean spirited, March 15, 2011

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Joanne Bales "Book Goddess" (pacifica, ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel with Two Faces: A Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey (Mysteries Featuring Josephine Tey) (Paperback)

If I want to be depressed and read excellent writing I will pick up another book by Nicola Upson. I feel that when an author writes a book with such skill and yet the book continually " beats you up" then what is the point. This author clearly does not like people or her readers, don't waste your time.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Read, January 10, 2011

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Wren McPherson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel with Two Faces: A Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey (Mysteries Featuring Josephine Tey) (Paperback)

PLOT SPOILERS. I loved An Expert in Murder so I saved this sequel for my vacation. Unfortunately, it wasn't worth the wait. The mystery itself is well plotted, but too much of the the book was taken over by disturbing and, I think, entirely unnecessary exposes of sexual deviance by various characters. Incestuous rape, incestuous love affairs, one man's unrequited love of his best friend, the abortion of a young teen's pregnancy -- I couldn't help but feel that Upson had an agenda she was trying to put across in this book, but I couldn't pick it out from the general sexual despair that hangs over the whole novel. The book was so depressing I started finding it funny and the ending was just what I expected - how else could all that hopelessness end? All in all, Upson's writing continues to impress and her characters are endearing and interesting. I hope the next installment lives up to Upson's promise. I left this book in the hotel room.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing for all the wrong reasons, August 21, 2010

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Cate Bruckman "Cate Bruckman" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel with Two Faces: A Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey (Mysteries Featuring Josephine Tey) (Paperback)

BEWARE. PLOT SPOILERS:

As far as the mystery went, it was marginally well put together. Yet there seemed to be a strange empathy for the incestuous relationship between a brother and sister. And not just from one character, but from several. I didn't find it very believable. On top of this, there's an odd lack of sympathy for the parents that were murdered as a result of the relationship (almost as though they deserved to be burnt to death because they didn't support the relationship). Odd, and disturbing.