Book Review: 'Broken Music'
“Broken Music” (Minotaur Books, $25.99) by Marjorie Eccles is a mystery set in the village of Broughton Underhill, on the edge of the Black Country in Great Britain in 1919, after World War I.
Former police Sgt. Herbert Reardon has returned to the village to try to solve a mystery that has haunted him since the spring before the war. A young woman was found drowned in the lake. He was never satisfied with a ruling of suicide.
Her name was Marianne Wentworth, the grown daughter of the Rev. Francis Wentworth. As Reardon begins to investigate, he is met with silence from the Wentworths as well as other people he interviews.
When Edith Huckaby, a maid from Oaklands Park, is found murdered, he senses that the two deaths might have something in common. He begins to suspect that there are long kept secrets in the village.
The author's description of postwar Great Britain and the horrors that doctors and nurses faced in the field hospitals is vivid and leaves nothing to the imagination. However, there is romance intertwined as well as in-depth characterization of the families and people in the village.
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