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Peter and Georgia Marsh #7
Murder on the Old Road
A Marsh and Daughter Mystery - When Georgia and Peter Marsh encounter a group of weirdly dressed ‘pilgrims’ on the Old Road to Canterbury, more is at stake than the play the Chillingham Drama Group is shortly to perform. The group are to re-enact a pilgrimage and production that took place over forty years earlier – but that event ended in a murder that has never been solved . . . Determined to discover the killer, Marsh & Daughter set out on a dangerous journey: one that could provide the solution not only to Chillingham’s problems, but to their own.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2011
About the author
Amy Myers
142 books73 followersaka Laura Daniels, Harriet Hudson
Amy Myers was born in Kent, where she still lives, although she has now ventured to the far side of the Medway. For many years a director of a London publishing company, she is now a full-time writer. Married to an American, she lived for some years in Paris, where, surrounded by food, she first dreamed up her Victorian chef detective Auguste Didier. Currently she is writing her contemporary crime series starring Jack Colby, car detective, and in between his adventures continuing her Marsh & Daughter series and her Victorian chimnney sweep Tom Wasp novels.
Series:
* Peter and Georgia March
* Auguste Didier
* Tom Wasp
Anthologies edited:
* After Midnight Stories
Amy Myers was born in Kent, where she still lives, although she has now ventured to the far side of the Medway. For many years a director of a London publishing company, she is now a full-time writer. Married to an American, she lived for some years in Paris, where, surrounded by food, she first dreamed up her Victorian chef detective Auguste Didier. Currently she is writing her contemporary crime series starring Jack Colby, car detective, and in between his adventures continuing her Marsh & Daughter series and her Victorian chimnney sweep Tom Wasp novels.
Series:
* Peter and Georgia March
* Auguste Didier
* Tom Wasp
Anthologies edited:
* After Midnight Stories
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July 8, 2019
Another great who done it and the intriguing story, I have read so many of this Genre all my life, this is embellished the story of class heroism, cleverly trained people and money, to own something so connected with the spirit world.
The mystery deepens and murder is done, the lengths people go to and why is astonishing and the book is a literary feast of active investigation and with unexpected results.
The need to acquire artifacts and associations to Bead is all over the country with Wells everywhere and Bones all believed to be his, the mysterious figure and the energy that goes with it.
The mystery deepens and murder is done, the lengths people go to and why is astonishing and the book is a literary feast of active investigation and with unexpected results.
The need to acquire artifacts and associations to Bead is all over the country with Wells everywhere and Bones all believed to be his, the mysterious figure and the energy that goes with it.
June 10, 2019
Realistic. Refreshing.
The great series continues. And, it includes a surprise of realistic experiences. Thank you Amy. Things don't always work and that's the sad reality.
The great series continues. And, it includes a surprise of realistic experiences. Thank you Amy. Things don't always work and that's the sad reality.
August 7, 2019
The Wayncrofts... the leading family in the village of Chillingham, where in 1967 happened the unsolved murder of Hugh Wayncroft. He was strangled along Peacock Road, a part of the Old Road following a re~enactment of a Thomas Becket pilgrimage... including acting on the Becket play by Tennyson with the rest of the Chillingham villagers at every church and shrine along Canterbury then back on foot to Chillingham. It was also on Peacock road that Georgia felt the dark and overwhelming macabre fingerprint... and thus were Peter and Luke also drawn into the Wayncroft web of family secrets, their flawed characters and their heritage in relation to St. Thomas Becket as well as into whatever stories the other prominent families loyal to them may chose to disclose reticently to the visitors while they were in the course of investigating a cold case... for the villagers really do know how to keep secrets. Though it must be mentioned here that Luke was invited by Tim, one of the owners of Peacock Inn in Chillingham, to witness a publicity venture to encourage tourism by a revival of the pilgrimage re~ Thomas Becket like the one in 1967...
October 19, 2020
It was fine, but I never engaged. Things got better after the murder.
June 2, 2024
The Chillingham Drama Group are doing a reenactment of a walk over 40 years earlier in 1967. But that resulted in the death of Hugh Wayncroft. The Marshs decide to investigate.
An enjoyable mystery
An enjoyable mystery
August 31, 2012
‘Murder on the Old Road’ by Amy Myers
Published by Severn House. ISBN: 978-0-7278-6952-4
Out for a Thursday lunch time drink at the local village pub the Three Peacocks, Georgia, her husband Luke and father Peter find themselves amongst forty-odd people dressed in medieval costume. Luke jokes they have stumbled into a Brigadoon situation, but it turns out they are the Chillingham Village Drama Group.
They are invited to accompany the drama group who are on a publicity walk along the Old Road to Canterbury dressed as pilgrims to publicise their play. Georgia senses tension between the two half brothers Julian Wayncroft and Valentine Harper, playing the lead parts of the King and Archbishop Thomas Becket and would have declined, but Luke is up for it. Georgia's father Peter is in a wheel chair, so elects to return home. Joining the walk with them is the pub landlord, Tim Hurst, and Anne Fanshawe the vicar. As they walk through Peacock Wood Georgia has an attack of nausea that signifies to her a presence of past evil in that part of the woods through which they are walking. She later learns that a murder took place in the wood - a murder that has never been solved.
Georgia is the other half of Marsh and Daughter who write True Crime. She is eager to speak to her father of her experiences in the wood and later learns from him of the murder in 1967 of Hugh Wayncroft, the then Lord of the Manor and Julian's father. Georgia is aghast that Hugh had been killed on just such a pilgrimage from Winchester to Canterbury to stage Tennyson's play Becket.
As Georgia probes for information on the murder, she comes up against brick walls, and a divided village, just it was in 1967. When she joins the players for one day she is aware that feelings are running high. Also another brick wall is her father's attitude to the death of her brother Rick. There is also tension between her father and his girl friend Janie. And all is not totally plain sailing in her own relationship.
This is very much my type of mystery. Good characterisation, masses of undercurrents, layer upon layer to be peeled away before the truth is revealed. And like all really good books a twist at the end.
Highly recommended.
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Lizzie Hayes
Published by Severn House. ISBN: 978-0-7278-6952-4
Out for a Thursday lunch time drink at the local village pub the Three Peacocks, Georgia, her husband Luke and father Peter find themselves amongst forty-odd people dressed in medieval costume. Luke jokes they have stumbled into a Brigadoon situation, but it turns out they are the Chillingham Village Drama Group.
They are invited to accompany the drama group who are on a publicity walk along the Old Road to Canterbury dressed as pilgrims to publicise their play. Georgia senses tension between the two half brothers Julian Wayncroft and Valentine Harper, playing the lead parts of the King and Archbishop Thomas Becket and would have declined, but Luke is up for it. Georgia's father Peter is in a wheel chair, so elects to return home. Joining the walk with them is the pub landlord, Tim Hurst, and Anne Fanshawe the vicar. As they walk through Peacock Wood Georgia has an attack of nausea that signifies to her a presence of past evil in that part of the woods through which they are walking. She later learns that a murder took place in the wood - a murder that has never been solved.
Georgia is the other half of Marsh and Daughter who write True Crime. She is eager to speak to her father of her experiences in the wood and later learns from him of the murder in 1967 of Hugh Wayncroft, the then Lord of the Manor and Julian's father. Georgia is aghast that Hugh had been killed on just such a pilgrimage from Winchester to Canterbury to stage Tennyson's play Becket.
As Georgia probes for information on the murder, she comes up against brick walls, and a divided village, just it was in 1967. When she joins the players for one day she is aware that feelings are running high. Also another brick wall is her father's attitude to the death of her brother Rick. There is also tension between her father and his girl friend Janie. And all is not totally plain sailing in her own relationship.
This is very much my type of mystery. Good characterisation, masses of undercurrents, layer upon layer to be peeled away before the truth is revealed. And like all really good books a twist at the end.
Highly recommended.
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Lizzie Hayes
October 1, 2012
Murder on the Old Road begins with a pilgrimage -- both real and metaphorical. Georgia Marsh and her father Peter encounter a group dressed as medieval pilgrims en route on the Old Road to Canterbury. Rather than religious, however, the bunch is an amateur theatrical group, the Chillingham Drama Group, staging Becket -- the Alfred Lord Tennyson version, not the zippy Jean Anouilh one -- and the pilgrimage's purpose is publicity rather than piety. However, 30 years earlier, a similar pilgrimage to stage the same play ended in the man playing the martyred Thomas à Becket himself being murdered. That murder was never solved, and it proves magnetic to the Marshes -- especially when they feel "the fingerprints of time," a psychic uneasiness that justice hasn't been done.
When someone else is murdered on the modern-day pilgrimage, Georgia and Peter sense there are ties to that first, unresolved murder. Some of the same people are on this second pilgrimage and the same heated debate over developing sacred land for tourism that bitterly divided Chillingham 30 years ago has re-emerged.
Author Amy Myers has crafted a delightful mystery that explores the uneasy balance between sharing the past and exploiting it. The resolution of the murders proves very satisfactory. All in all, it's enough to make one sigh that Myers seems to be spending so much time on those car buff mysteries that she's taking her time producing new Marsh and Daughter mysteries. With any luck, she'll see that her fans need another Marsh and Daughter fix soon!
When someone else is murdered on the modern-day pilgrimage, Georgia and Peter sense there are ties to that first, unresolved murder. Some of the same people are on this second pilgrimage and the same heated debate over developing sacred land for tourism that bitterly divided Chillingham 30 years ago has re-emerged.
Author Amy Myers has crafted a delightful mystery that explores the uneasy balance between sharing the past and exploiting it. The resolution of the murders proves very satisfactory. All in all, it's enough to make one sigh that Myers seems to be spending so much time on those car buff mysteries that she's taking her time producing new Marsh and Daughter mysteries. With any luck, she'll see that her fans need another Marsh and Daughter fix soon!
March 27, 2011
The writing team of Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia is interested in an unsolved murder on the Pilgrim's Trail 40 years ago, after the participants performed a play in Canterbury. The little village of Chillingham was then riven by factions at odds about attracting tourists to their relics of St. Thomas. Now, the villagers are again at odds, they are again performing the play, and again planning to walk from Canterbury to the village. Some of the same families and individuals are involved. So it's not entirely unexpected when murder strikes again.
August 17, 2012
I like murder mysteries to be logical and non-paranormal so that I can solve as I read along. I just lost interest in this way too early when Georgia Marsh senses the "fingerprints" of a 30 year old murder. What is she - a psychic? So annoying
October 3, 2012
so far, having a horrible time reading this! I don't know if it is the typos or the writing.
I am only on page 30 so I will give it a little more time but it has taken me HOURS to get to that point!
I am only on page 30 so I will give it a little more time but it has taken me HOURS to get to that point!
February 18, 2014
I thought that this book was ok. The characters were fine but the plot was I thought a bit silly.
I am not sure if I will read more by Amy Myers in this series of murder mysteries.
I thought that the killer was a little bit far fetched.
I am not sure if I will read more by Amy Myers in this series of murder mysteries.
I thought that the killer was a little bit far fetched.
March 5, 2011
Someone recommended this series, so I picked this up at the local library. I didn't really care for the narrative style or the characters. So, I won't be continuing with the series.
October 14, 2014
The historical intregue in this book made it an extra for me. It certainly made it my no.1 Amy Myers book so far. I would like to give it 4 1/2*, it's not quite 5.
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