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Edith Pargeter, Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste for Bones (Paperback, 2014, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road) 4 stars

12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition …

A pleasant medieval story, but not much of a murder mystery

4 stars

I may have spent far, far too much time down the old-fashioned murder mystery rabbit hole when my kids were little, absorbing Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh, but this didn't really seem to resemble a murder mystery as I'd recognize it. A pleasant enough medieval story, but the murder seemed a bit incidental (and yes, I realize it does sound a bit weird to complain about a story being insufficiently murder-ey, but it feels a bit like a failure of advertising :) ).