Theodora Braithwaite is on a retreat at a shrine in North Yorkshire called St Sylvan at Rest. She is with an ill-assorted group of people and she wonders how everyone is going to get on together. Most of all she needs silence and peace to make sense of her own thoughts and emotions. However it seems fate is conspiring against her with some strange goings on in the guest house followed by a murder.
I really enjoyed this book and it kept me reading long after my usual bed time. The story is well plotted and the characters well drawn and interesting. I liked the atmospheric descriptions of the shrine and the odd assortment of people who visit it apart from the people who are there for the retreat.
If you liked classic mystery stories with a small group of suspects and little on the page violence then you may enjoy this one. It is the fifth in the series featuring Theodora Braithwaite but it can be read as a standalone novel.
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