Seven Years

by Peter Robinson (read by Greg Patmore)

Bibliomysteries Series, Book 6

 

 

 

 

 

Length: 1 hr and 46 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 03-05-19

Language: English

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

ASIN: B07NZ21T3L

Publisher's Summary

A gripping novella from the New York Times best-selling author of the Inspector Banks Mysteries and a "master of the art" (Boston Globe)

Retired Cambridge professor Donald Aitcheson loves scouring antiquarian bookshops for secondhand treasures - as much as he loathes the scribbled marginalia from their previous owners. But when he comes upon an inscription in a volume of Robert Browning's poetry, he's less irritated than disturbed. This wasn't a gift to an unwitting woman. It was a threat - insidious, suggestively sick, and terribly intriguing.

Now Aitcheson's imagination is running wild. Was it a sordid teacher-pupil affair that ended in betrayal? A scorned lover's first salvo in a campaign of terror? The taunt of an obsessive psychopath? Then again, it could be nothing more than a tasteless joke between friends.

As his curiosity gets the better of him, Aitcheson can't resist playing detective. But when his investigation leads to a remote girls' boarding school in the Lincolnshire flatlands, and into the confidence of its headmistress, he soon discovers the consequences of reading between the lines.

Bibliomysteries=Serendipity

I stumbled across this series while browsing the Audible website. The first one I found was The Pretty Little Box by Charles Todd, an author I have been devouring of late. It was free and it was short, so I grabbed it. When I saw it was part of a series and that a couple were available on Audible, I got the only other one available through the Audible Plus Catalog. The series of short mysteries is published by MysteriousBooks.com and is available on through their website. Some are available through Amazon and Audible.

Seven Years is a delightful little story but a bit predictable at the end even though there are two possible endings; I wish the author had gone with the other ending.

It gets 3.5 stars.