The Twinning Murders is a modern day classic mystery centering on the ventures of Emily Ryder, a thirty-something rambler and tour guide. The story opens just before she embarks on this year's Twinning ritual exchange. It's between her historic New England home and its sister village deep in Dartmoor, a wild upland area in the west of the county of Devon, England. Emily becomes personally involved in a suspicious death.. A few days later, at the Twinning itself, her main client meets the same fate. As Emily's world continues to unravel, and though she has little help, she finds herself compelled to piece together the games being played on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Shelly Frome is a Professor Emeritus of dramatic arts at the University of Connecticut. A former professional actor and theater director, his writing credits include a number of national and international articles on acting and theater, profiles of artists and notable figures in the arts, books on theater and film and mystery novels.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One minute the reader is in the U.S.; the next in a British mystery on the moors with all the accouterments
February 11, 2011
Format:Paperback
Shelly Frome is an emeritus professor at the University of Connecticut. His credits include the usual articles; books on theater and film; professional acting credits; and writing mysteries.
Set in Lydfied, Connecticut and Lydfield-in-the-Moor in Britain, Frome's story revolves around a threat to the good inhabitants of Lydfield, Connecticut by a corporate developer who plans to invade the town with a condo development. Enter Emily, a rather loosely put-together young woman whose mother owns the B & B in town, one of the targets of the enemy. Emily makes her living taking townsfolk over to their sister city in England for site seeing. Her latest endeavor involves a twinning (whatever that is), which is ostensibly a fair for the locals. Before she leaves, a close friend dies in a suspicious accident involving a fall from a roof in a storm. We're off and running, and strange characters pop up everywhere:
"After voicing her displeasure over any stopovers, Pru returned to her favorite subject. 'Where is it that we're staying exactly, Emily? How close to the moors? Close enough to check out the witch hut? And her stories about tricky Devon pixies? The dreaded wisht hound in league with the Devil? Faithless wives and fickle maidens forced down the banks of the river? You said we could hike there, remember?"
Since Frome is an actor and drama Professor, one would expect exotic backdrops and macabre characters. He doesn't fail to please. In fact, his characters are so bad at communicating with one another that the reader finds himself or herself drawn into this rather schizophrenic world of weirdos. Poor Emily is the only sane one in the bunch, other than her white knight who hangs in the background, and her best friend Babs, who tears around looking for newsworthy craziness to earn her living.
But hang in there... Frome teases us with lots of seemingly disjointed events that are all tied together in a neat little bow at the end. He doesn't forget his denouement, and don't forget to pay attention to all the clues he litters throughout the tale.
THE TWINING MURDERS is good, old-fashioned fun. One minute the reader is in the U.S.; the next in a British mystery on the moors with all the accouterments.
Shelley Glodowski
Senior Reviewer
Set in Lydfied, Connecticut and Lydfield-in-the-Moor in Britain, Frome's story revolves around a threat to the good inhabitants of Lydfield, Connecticut by a corporate developer who plans to invade the town with a condo development. Enter Emily, a rather loosely put-together young woman whose mother owns the B & B in town, one of the targets of the enemy. Emily makes her living taking townsfolk over to their sister city in England for site seeing. Her latest endeavor involves a twinning (whatever that is), which is ostensibly a fair for the locals. Before she leaves, a close friend dies in a suspicious accident involving a fall from a roof in a storm. We're off and running, and strange characters pop up everywhere:
"After voicing her displeasure over any stopovers, Pru returned to her favorite subject. 'Where is it that we're staying exactly, Emily? How close to the moors? Close enough to check out the witch hut? And her stories about tricky Devon pixies? The dreaded wisht hound in league with the Devil? Faithless wives and fickle maidens forced down the banks of the river? You said we could hike there, remember?"
Since Frome is an actor and drama Professor, one would expect exotic backdrops and macabre characters. He doesn't fail to please. In fact, his characters are so bad at communicating with one another that the reader finds himself or herself drawn into this rather schizophrenic world of weirdos. Poor Emily is the only sane one in the bunch, other than her white knight who hangs in the background, and her best friend Babs, who tears around looking for newsworthy craziness to earn her living.
But hang in there... Frome teases us with lots of seemingly disjointed events that are all tied together in a neat little bow at the end. He doesn't forget his denouement, and don't forget to pay attention to all the clues he litters throughout the tale.
THE TWINING MURDERS is good, old-fashioned fun. One minute the reader is in the U.S.; the next in a British mystery on the moors with all the accouterments.
Shelley Glodowski
Senior Reviewer
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Me Minty
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Shelly Frome does a great job of creating an interesting murder mystery around a hennas crime committed in a small New England village. He then takes it all the way across "The Pond" to England where he beautifully captured the essence of Dartmoor National Park and the moorlands of Devon. From the village fete to the sudden fog that can devour you upon The Moor, Shelly Frome creates a wonderful atmosphere in which to add intrigue and mystery.
The book starts in Lydfield, Connecticut building to a wave of disbelief and sadness for the main character, Emily as she suspects that her dear friend has been murdered over the confusion and greed around a scheme to develop land in her community of Lydfield.
Emily is a tour guide taking folks on tours to the United Kingdom and in doing so she carries her suspicions with her to England where in the twin village of Lydfield-in-The Moor all comes to a frightening culmination as another murder is discovered.
The story twists and turns and creates an interesting confluence of red herrings, doubts and suspicions until the end when you will be, as they say, "Gob smacked!" at who the murderer turns out to be.
This book was fun and scary and full of great characters one of which is a wonderful golden retriever. Twinning Murders will give you a dose of a good old fashion murder mystery with a surprise ending.
Well done, Shelly Frome
The book starts in Lydfield, Connecticut building to a wave of disbelief and sadness for the main character, Emily as she suspects that her dear friend has been murdered over the confusion and greed around a scheme to develop land in her community of Lydfield.
Emily is a tour guide taking folks on tours to the United Kingdom and in doing so she carries her suspicions with her to England where in the twin village of Lydfield-in-The Moor all comes to a frightening culmination as another murder is discovered.
The story twists and turns and creates an interesting confluence of red herrings, doubts and suspicions until the end when you will be, as they say, "Gob smacked!" at who the murderer turns out to be.
This book was fun and scary and full of great characters one of which is a wonderful golden retriever. Twinning Murders will give you a dose of a good old fashion murder mystery with a surprise ending.
Well done, Shelly Frome
By B. Johnston
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
In writing the The Twinning Murders Shelly Forme has created the classic English mystery, but this time time his detective is a young modern American woman, Emily.
Emily's town is about to be ruined by developers. Will her Mother be forced to sell the Bed and Breakfast? Who is this Doc and why is he following her? She has to leave to take a group to England and oops, she witnesses her good friend fall off a roof.
In the best tradition of Miss Marple, Emily, handles eccentrics on both sides of the Atlantic and uses sound reasoning for a fast paced conclusion.
I only wonder what Emily is up to today? Did it work out with Will? These are characters and a town I hope we hear more of.
Emily's town is about to be ruined by developers. Will her Mother be forced to sell the Bed and Breakfast? Who is this Doc and why is he following her? She has to leave to take a group to England and oops, she witnesses her good friend fall off a roof.
In the best tradition of Miss Marple, Emily, handles eccentrics on both sides of the Atlantic and uses sound reasoning for a fast paced conclusion.
I only wonder what Emily is up to today? Did it work out with Will? These are characters and a town I hope we hear more of.
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