Cool Repentance [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Antonia Fraser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1983 | Series: A midnight large print mystery

Celebrated actress Christabel Cartwright trades her country house, its staff of servants, and her husband for a reckless affair.

She also thought she could resume her career--her director was delighted, and so was Megalith Television. But one person in Christabel's circle had doubts.

What happens next is murder, and it brings Jemima Shore, the author's elegant alter ego, into the fray. She trails her man (or is it woman?) through the thickets of human emotion.

"Glorious fun...the ending is genuinely surprising." (The Spectator)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Chivers Press; Large type edition edition (December 15, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851195970
• ISBN-13: 978-0851195971
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable book, if not Fraser's best., October 15, 2004

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This review is from: Cool Repentance (Mass Market Paperback)

Jemima Shore Investigator goes to Larminster to cover the small local theater festival held in that town by the sea. What seems like it will be a boring and standard assignment, turns into a free-for-all as the return of an infamous local actress to the stage sets tempers flaring. Murder follows murder as Jemima begins to have her own ideas about who is to blame.

It is really a mark of how good Fraser is as a detective writer that I really enjoyed this book despite the unbelievable ending. While not as good as some of the other Fraser novels, the characters still have depth and the writing has a fine and subtle quality well above that of most detective fiction novels. If you have not read Fraser before, I would begin with Quiet as a Nun, not Cool Repentance. If already a Fraser fan, it is still enjoyable, even when it does not deserve to be.