Pagan Spring

3 1/2? I like this series, but I want to like this series more. Or maybe just I like it more in theory than in reality? I don't know. Looking back at my response to the first two, I find that my response to this one sort of echoes my response to those. It's very literate and well-written. It's solid......more

Well, the characters are not as wooden as in the previous books - or such caricatures. But, having the priest verbally chastise someone for dressing immodestly in church -as if a male minister would ever really be able to make a comment on what a teen is wearing in real life- while having sex outsid......more

In G.M. Malliet’s third novel in the series, handsome and perspicacious Anglican priest Max Tudor investigates the death of Thaddeus Bottle, a bullying has-been character actor murdered in his bed. At the top of the list of suspects are Bottle’s beleaguered trophy wife, Melinda; her lover, local arc......more

This is my 3rd Max Tudor mystery and I am still in love with this older series. Malliet write so well and the books have that touch of small village humor that I have enjoyed. However this book was much more serious in tone and subject. The reveal is explosive and the killer is someone you feel for.......more

PAGAN SPRING returns us to the small English village of Nether Monkslip where Max Tutor is an ex MI5 agent turned Anglican priest. His love life with the controversial spiritualist, Awena Owins, continues to blossom. Max also steps into a new possible murder. Thaddeus Bottle has moved back to a huge......more