Deep Waters
By Kate Charles
3.5/5
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In a culture obsessed with celebrity, baby Muffin's death is big news. Crib death—or something more sinister? Everyone wants to know, including the police. Whatever the truth, the bereaved parents—celebrity couple Jodee and Chazz—live in curate Callie Anson's parish. And despite the disapproval of her vicar and his wife, Callie becomes involved with funeral arrangements.
It's a high-profile case, all right. Detective Inspector Neville Stewart is even recalled from his honeymoon to investigate—with disastrous personal results. And journalist Lilith Noone's professional future is on the line as she is sucked more deeply into her own flirtations with celebrity culture.
But for police family liaison officer Mark Lombardi, the death of baby Muffin is eclipsed by another death much closer to home. He soon finds himself in an impossible position, torn between his loyalty to his family and his growing love for Callie.
Deep Waters takes an unflinching look at our ambivalent relationship with the celebrities we make...and discard.
Kate Charles
Kate Charles, who was described by the Oxford Times as 'a most English writer', is an expatriate American. She has a special interest and expertise in clerical mysteries, and lectures frequently on crime novels with church backgrounds. Kate is a former Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the Barbara Pym Society. Kate lives in LUDLOW, Shropshire.
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Reviews for Deep Waters
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The British Library Crime Classics series (published and marketed in the US by Poisoned Pen Press) is growing into a veritable library spanning the “Golden Age” of crime fiction. Since 2012, the series has presented to the public forgotten gems of the genre.
Martin Edwards, who is himself an award-winning crime writer and Chairperson of the Crime Writers’ Association, deserves much of the credit for the success of this venture. Besides acting as series consultant, he has also edited several of its “themed anthologies”. I must admit that although I enjoy some crime fiction now and then, it is not the genre I typically read. I guess that for persons like me, these multi-author anthologies are an ideal entry point to the Crime Classics series. Edwards is an erudite and intelligent editor, who knows how to keep a reader interested through the variety of the chosen stories.
“Deep Waters”, the thirteenth anthology to appear in the series, is an excellent example. It features a total of sixteen stories which all bear some relation to water. Edwards casts his net wide, and the watery settings to the chosen tales range from cruise liners sailing the oceans, to river boats, canals and even ponds and swimming pools. The stories are spread over a century or so, starting in 1893 with the very first piece in the Sherlock Holmes canon (Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Gloria Scott”) and ending with “Death by Water” by Michael Innes (the pen-name of Edinburgh-born academic John Innes Mackintosh Stewart), first published in the 1975 collection “The Appleby File”.
Along the way, we meet examples of works by leading representatives of the “Golden Age” crime fiction, such as E.W. Hornung and Edmund Crispin, alongside lesser-known authors such as Kem Bennett. Crime fiction is often dismissed as being too formulaic – this selection shows that nothing can be further from the truth and that the best authors find ingenious ways of presenting, reinterpreting and in some cases subverting the expectations of the genre. The protagonists range from professional to amateur or even ‘accidental’ investigators and there’s an appearance by E.W. Hornung’s amiable rogue ‘Raffles’. There are also some excellent examples of crime sub-genres such as the ‘locked-room mystery’ (as in “Bullion”, by William Hope Hodgson, possibly better-known as the author of creepy ghost stories) and the “inverted mystery”, where the solution to the mystery is presented to the reader at the outset and the pleasure lies in discovering how the puzzle will be unravelled.
Although the style of some of featured pieces feels rather dated, there is much enjoyment to be had from these watery tales. As a bonus, Martin Edwards provides a foreword to the anthology, as well as an introduction to each story, with biographical and bibliographical details. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A collection of sixteen stories all with a connection to water, published from the 1890s onwards. Displaying a vast range of different writing styles I did enjoy most of the stories, but the two I probably liked the most were Bullion and Seasprite.
A NetGalley Book - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sixteen short stories all relating to water,be it rivers,seasides,estuaries, pools and so on. And ranging in style from classic murder mysteries to tales of the unexpected. Some are good,very good indeed,and some do not quite enchant me so much.But one of the great advantages and delights of these anthologies is the fact that you are introduced to different writers(some famous like Arthur Conan Doyle,C.S.Forester,Michael Innes and some now long forgotten) and their different approach to the "murder mystery". And notwithstanding the fact that some were written more than a century ago,they are still highly readable and are still a wonderfull source of bookish pleasure.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a broad collection of mysteries with some connection to water -- high seas, coastal,ports rivers, even a swimming pool. It starts with a Sherlock Holmes story, The Gloria Scott, and goes down to the mid-twentieth century. Some of the stories are not my favorite type, as they are done from the murderer's point of view and/or are too grim, but there is one perfect eucatastrophe, as Tolkien would call it, in which, as the narrator says at the start, a difference of a few minutes in time prevented a murder and produced a perfectly happy ending.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Martin Edwards has produced a solid anthology of Golden Age style crime fiction short stores, the theme of which is aptly expressed by the sub-title, "Murder on the Waves". The stories are set in, on or around a body of water. They come from from a variety of authors, including some well-known crime writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Edmund Crispin. Lesser known authors are also represented, e.g. Andrew Garve and Phyllis Bennett; some readers like me may not have heard of them before this book.As in any anthology, some stories stand out more than others. I enjoyed Doyle's "The Adventure of the 'Gloria Scott'", the first Sherlock Holmes investigation. "The Thimble River Mystery" introduced me to the writing of Josephine Bell and I hope to soon enjoy some of her other crime fiction. Overall, the stories are entertaining. They vary in length too which makes it easy to dip into the book when reading time is short; "The Seasprite" is over before you know it, with an ending some may feel is too abrupt. Reading tastes differ of course so what one person likes may not suit others. One of the appeals of a Martin Edwards crime fiction anthology is the variety of the selected stories. With sixteen stories there is plenty from which to choose. Edwards's Introduction to the collection serves as a useful guide to making your selections.I received my advance reader's review copy of this eBook from Poisoned Pen Press, via Netgalley. The comments about it are my own.