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title: "A Bloody Hot Summer Paperback – Illustrated, October 23, 2019"
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# A Bloody Hot Summer Paperback – Illustrated, October 23, 2019

**Brand:** trevor d'silva
**Price:** € 33.79
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- **What is this?** A Bloody Hot Summer Paperback – Illustrated, October 23, 2019 by trevor d'silva
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## Customer Reviews

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    A chore to read
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2021*

I love British murder mysteries.  Correction.  I love well-written British murder mysteries where the prose pulls you in and makes the characters and story come to life. I cannot believe these accolades seriously apply to this book:#1 Amazon Bestseller - Contemporary British Fiction#1 Amazon Bestseller - International Mystery & Crime"A modern interpretation of a golden age detective novel, in the spirit of Agatha Christie and other writers of crime of the interwar period. A very satisfying homage." –Paul C.W. Beatty, award-winning author of Children of Fire and member of the Crime Writers' AssociationI can’t believe that with over 1200 books already on my Kindle I made space for this one.  I can’t believe I spent money on it.  I can’t believe I am still trying to slog through it.  The writing is clunky and the short choppy sentences paint no pictures to draw you in. The adjectives are clumsy and ill-fitting.  I cannot get acquainted with the cardboard cutouts that stand in for the characters because they are given no personalities.  The ‘detective’ jumps to unsupported conclusions and hops jerkily around all premises of the mystery.  My freshman Lit teacher would have given a student a C at best for writing something like this.

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    A Lively Mystery that Exposes Murderers and Empires
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019*

Trevor D’Silva’s A Bloody Hot Summer is an old-fashioned British mystery, marked by an ever-building body count and a delicious parade of clues. Yet the novel also serves as a penetrating commentary on the price of Empire with its enemies made near (Scotland and Germany) and far (India and South Africa). By interweaving the complex history of the Fitzhugh family from 1850s India to fin de siècle South Africa (during the Boer Wars) to the Great War right up to the story’s present day 1927, D’Silva delivers a narrative soiled by the undercurrents of violence and greed.Yet the serious price of that brutal colonial history is given buoyancy by the author’s playful approach to the mystery genre. The author clearly is having fun here as he draws on the traditional tropes and hints with elements ranging from poisoned medicines to cut saddle straps to secret passageways to dull knives to evidence hidden behind paintings. The presence of the charming, unassuming detective Dermot Carlyle on the scene gives the novel a measure of British restraint that keeps the tone wry and pensive.Plus, D’Silva’s assured pacing propels the story ahead so that the clues and deaths accumulate in intriguing ways. As I mentioned in the opening, all of this cultivated, amusing mayhem is offset by the darker legacies of British history, one for which the Fitzhugh family paid an extremely high price, even as it gained great fortune. Indeed, no fortune could be more unfortunate.At one point Pippa says to her boyfriend Richard, “You will have to wash your shirt or the stain will never come off.” The stains are everywhere in this novel and they hurtle back to a dark past, most pointedly in the concentration camps during the Boer War. Through his weather motif, D’Silva slyly hints how the legacy of colonialism permeates every aspect of English life. As Major Havelock points out, “This heat reminds me of South Africa and India.” That heat bears down on the characters through A Bloody Hot Summer, an environment that can be withering. The atmosphere is one ripe for exposure and revelation.Finally, the elaborate maneuvers Dermot employs to draw out the murderers are masterful and lead to a very satisfying climax. I highly recommend A Bloody Hot Summer since it serves as a fun, engaging mystery while unearthing a past the evokes both shame and the opportunity for redemption.

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    Only for emergencies...
  

*by Z***T on Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2021*

Torturous plotting, labored writing, flat characters; not worth the effort unless you’re stuck with nothing else to read(Also several “Americanisms” & minor typos—“disappointingly” for “disappointedly “, etc.)

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