Bone Idle

Superintendent Bone #6

by Susannah Stacey

Superintendent Robert Bone and his new bride are visiting friends Lord Benet Paisley Roke and his wife, when an unpopular tour guest takes a fatal tumble at Roke Castle, and Roke himself is brutally murdered. In the explosive aftermath of the reading of Lord Roke's will, Bone races to stop a killer who is poised to strike again.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Cozy, Mystery Thriller

311 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

AKA Elizabeth Eyre, Susannah Stacey is the pseudonym of the couple of writers Jill Staynes [1927-] and Margaret Storey [1926-].
Jill Staynes writes her own novels as well as writing under the name of Elizabeth Eyre and Susannah Stacey with Margaret Storey. They were pupils at the same school where they invented bizarre characters and exchanged serial episodes about them. Their first book together. at the age of fifteen, was called 'Bungho, or why we went to Aleppo'. It was not offered for publication. They have both written stories for children, and together created the highly praised Superintendent Bone modern detective novels as well as this series of Italian Renaissance whodunnits.

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is Superintendent Bone's Honeymoon, which ends up being a busman's holiday. Excellent! And even though I'd read it before, I couldn't remember who'd 'dun it', and couldn't work it out.

Nov 25 - not my favourite Bone book. Creepy and nasty.

[Harry Lane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful British mystery with manners.

[Queue · Rating 4 out of 5]

I adore this series. Not cozy, but not coldly threatening - more Midsomer Murders than Lucifer, should that comparison scan for you. Comfort reread, needed on chilly sick days.

[Jan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of a slow start but picked after the murders happened.

It felt very old fashioned but was enjoyable enough.

[Terri · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read the complete series, and then discovered I had skipped over this one. Not the best, but a decent read.

[Josephine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amusing/diverting peek into the lives and houses of the nobility in England; the mystery's fluff but engaging enough that I've read the book a couple of times. Though it's the sixth in the series, readers can pick this one up and follow the plot easily enough.