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    The Office of the Dead: Roth Trilogy Book 3

    By Andrew Taylor

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 20, 2013
    ISBN9780007502035
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    The Office of the Dead: Roth Trilogy Book 3
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    Andrew Taylor

    Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice. He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger.

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    • 4/5
      A favorite re-read.
    • 5/5
      This is the final book of the "Roth Trilogy," and takes place 20 years before events in The Judgement of Strangers, the second book in the series.This story is told from the perspective of Wendy Appleyard, a young woman who is estranged from her husband and stays with her best friend Janet, who is married to young minister David Byfield. Author Andrew Taylor continues his exceptional writing and gives us an excellent character sketch of Wendy, as well as a very insightful look at a family that is rapidly disintegrating.The story is for the most part very satisfying as it becomes something of a historical dig by Wendy that serves as the capstone to the history behind the Roth Trilogy. Taylor knows how to keep his readers happy.He also knows how to leave us guessing. It is almost as if this story could lead onto another story (but it doesn't), as Wendy encounters some roadblocks in her digging (that help answer some questions from The Judgement of Strangers, but does so by leaving open more questions.The series as a whole is very solid, very well written and very satisfying.
    • 5/5
      With The Roth Trilogy of which THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD is the last published, but the first in strict chronological order of events, Andrew Taylor attempted to do something alarmingly strange.Now I've finished reading all three, I feel like I should go back and read them all again. The author says I can read them in any order, but I suspect that is not really so. I think also it will help if you read them all within a short time frame, not, as I have done, over an extended period.It is not just the linked histories of the Appleyards and the Byfields that bind the novels together as one, but the presence throughout of the rather sinister (or was he, as some characters insist, a "good" man, ?), Canon Francis Youlgreave.