University Professor Alex Wearing is found murdered in his study. Can the police find out who and why somebody killed him?
This cosy mystery is set in Australia. The whole story is quite soft. It is not a regular police procedural but more the quest for the victim’s brother James to find out all that had been going on.
The blurb for this novel on Amazon and Goodreads is very well written and marks this book out to be a gripping read. However, the actual book failed on it’s promise and became a second rate read.
The Celtic Dagger is light reading with nothing cutting edge or unusual happening. This story just rolls along as the mystery unravels, more laid back on the sofa, than edge of your seat.
Two little things niggle and become repetitive, coats are taken off and cars pull away from the curb. Two common everyday actions, no mystery or significance there. Yet again I read about another coat being taken off and another car pulling away from a curb. Strange because Jill was born in Yorkshire, UK and I had to pinch myself with her non-British spelling of kerb.
I found The Celtic Dagger to be a tame, gentle, luke warm, run of the mill mystery that became an OKAY, 3 star read.
The Celtic Dagger was written in 2010 and is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook.
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