crime Reviewed by: Me
Review submitted: 7th of March 1997
I don't read mysterys of this genre that often, so it was nice to get into one for a change. An old lady inherits some old documents from a cousin, when she is looking through them she finds what seems to be a missing script by one of the Brontë sisters, but the script isn't in her possesing that long, someone breaks into her house and steals the script and beats her up. This is the prologe to 'The Missing Brontë'. I have never read anything by Mr. Robert Barnard before, but I find the book very easily read, one drawback is that one is assumend to know about the Bronte sisters. I guess that's common knowledge in United Kingdom who they are, but personally I've never headrd of them, so it's pity he didn't describe more about them in the first chapters of this book. I wouldn't say that this is an ordinary detective-story; it's much more fun to read than that, but the plot isn't that complicated and the superintendent which is the main charachter, bumps into clues more by accident than by skillful work, it could have been more complicated than that. For lightly reading this is what I recommend.
