Book Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: Honour the Dead
Subtitle:
Author:
John Anthony Miller
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Part of a series?
Order in series:
Best read after earlier
books in series?
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42620414-honour-the-dead
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
Lake Como, just after the great war. Penelope
has lost her mother and her brother. Now she struggles with her mental health
and is admitted to a sanitorium. While her psychiatrist attempts to treat her symptoms
of schizophrenia, her husband is shot dead. Who has done this?
What
I liked about the book:
The book is suspenseful with many twists and
turns. A real page-turner.
What
I didn’t like about the book:
I really loved the book.
My
favourite bits in the book:
Where Penelope’s wit and intellect shines through
her illness.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
I enjoyed the entire book.
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
This is the first book I have read by this
author and I really enjoyed it. I understand he has written many more.
What
books could this be compared to and why?
This is a great crime novel. It is a real
page-turner and action-packed.
Recommendation:
In
summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:
|
Children |
No |
|
Young
Adult |
Maybe |
|
Adult |
Yes |
If
you like murder mysteries full of suspense, this
may be the book for you.
I’m
certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
Six English survivors of the Great War – four
men and two women – converge on Lake Como, Italy in 1921. The result: one
corpse and one killer...
Psychiatrist Joseph Barnett is treating
wealthy socialite Penelope Jones for schizophrenia at a sanitarium in Como. She
is convinced someone is trying to kill her.
Penelope is married to war veteran Alexander
Cavendish, hero of the Battle of the Somme. Barnett knows – and hates –
Cavendish from the trenches where both were officers during the battle: one was
trying to save lives, the other take them.
Both men had been wounded and treated at a
hospital in Amiens where Bartlett met and later married Rose who worked there
as a nurse. But why does Rose also harbour an intense animosity towards
Cavendish?
John Anthony Miller’s fifth crime novel
Honour the Dead is a Rubik’s Cube of a murder case. Everyone is a suspect,
there are motives to spare – readers will go dizzy trying to solve it...
Motivated by a life-long love of travel and
history, John Anthony Miller's books are normally set in exotic locations
during eras of global conflict. Characters must cope and combat, overcoming
their own weaknesses as well as the catastrophes spawned by tumultuous times.
He's the author of To Parts Unknown, When Darkness Comes, In Satan's Shadow,
and All the King's Soldiers. He lives in southern New Jersey with his family.
About
the Author:
Motivated
by a life-long love of travel and history, John Anthony Miller sets his novels
in unique locations that span the globe and all eras of space and time. In the
exotic settings he so vividly describes, he creates complex characters who
combat inner conflicts, confronting weaknesses often spawned by tumultuous
times, fighting demons both real and imagined. He’s the author of eight
historical thrillers and mysteries, as well as his latest novel The Widow’s
Walk. He lives in southern New Jersey with his family.
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