Windsor Red [Hardcover]

Jennie Melville (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1988

From the author of DEAD SET, MURDER HAS A PRETTY FACE and THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT THERE, a paperback edition of a crime novel featuring Charmian Daniels who, while on a sabbatical from the police force, ends up investigating a series of gruesome finds around Windsor.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Charmian Daniels, a British policewoman on her way up, is using a sabbatical ostensibly taken to study women and crime as a cover to investigate the activities of a group of female recidivists. A tip has indicated that a serious incident is planned in Windsor. When she interviews the women, Charmian gets the feeling that they are using her, rather than the other way around, and she suspects a connection with the royal family and the various ceremonies that take place in Windsor. Meanwhile, Charmian has taken a flat in Wellington Yard, above the studio of an old friend, Anny Cooper, a potter whose daughter, suspected of killing her lover, has disappeared. Then parts of two bodies are found in Wellington Yard. Could the dismembered limbs belong to the daughter and her lover or to two young doctors, also missing? A possible link with the IRA also surfaces. While pursuing the answers to these questions, Charmian must also deal with her relationship with superior officer Humphrey Kent, who is in love with her. Melville (Tarot's Tower) brings up various feminist issues without being obtrusive and colorfully depicts the ambience of Windsor and the town's interdependence with the royal family.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; First US edition (April 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312018460
• ISBN-13: 978-0312018467
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,729,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Slow at times but plenty of twists of the plot, November 17, 2008

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This review is from: Windsor Red (Mass Market Paperback)

I found this book slow at times (as I tend to do with British novels), but the book does have plenty of twists in the plot and an ending that really catches you by surprise!

3.0 out of 5 stars Slow at times but plenty of twists of the plot, November 17, 2008

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I found this book slow at times (as I tend to do with British novels), but the book does have plenty of twists in the plot and an ending that really catches you by surprise!