The Accomplice

by Elizabeth Ironside

Book Overview

Jean Loftus has lived at Ashe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the garden, speak to an orderly, gracious, supremely English life. But when workmen unearth a skeleton... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933397500
• ISBN13: 9781933397504
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Required Reading for A Most Intelligent & Sensitive Soul

If you are perusing the mystery genre for bed-timing reading...this is not your book. If, however, you have high standards for elegant, highly intelligent, poignant, truth-shattering prose that reaches into your very soul...you will adore this unforgettable novel. Indeed, there is a reason why Elizabeth Ironside's used books are off-the-charts in pricing among her first editions. It is not because she is ho-hum like so many others in this genre. She is a stand-alone - a completely unique and brilliant author, for whom I shall search again, and again, looking forward to each book I can find knowing that at book's end I will be more knowledgable about the world in which I live; as well as more true to myself. Her novels, and this one especially, are that powerful.

from Alaska

This book is a complex English mystery that ends surprisingly. I enjoyed it immensely, as did a fellow traveler to Alaska who sat in the deck chair next to me.

Realer than real

Here is a completely fantastic story involving fleeing aristocrats, an unlikely vamp, an even more unlikely murderess, and you find yourself yielding to it with utter willingness. I just finished the book, and the really odd thing is how it wants to continue in your own mind. You feel sure you know what's likely to happen next, who will fall in love with whom, what will happen to the culprit, how justice will be served, without the author having to finish the story. And you're completely satisfied. A powerful piece of writing.

Wonderful book

Such a good book, one that you hate to see end. It's not your run of the mill kind of murder mysteries and so well written you feel like you know the characters so well.

WWII mystery by way of Latvia and Sussex! V. good

In this book a Latvian refugee from WWII nears the end of her life. She is the descendant of an aristocratic family, and has led two lives. The first life ends as the war ends and she meets her husband to be. He is a British doctor attending to the refugees in Berlin. Her next life is spent in comfort and security in a Sussex village. In 1990, after the Iron Curtain has fallen, she sends a package of clothing off to Moscow and events are initiated which cause her to revisit her early life, one that she kept secret. As the tale unfolds she begins to see herself in a young Russian girl who has come to spend the summer. This book is a mystery, and a novel. There are three significant murders, but this book feels more like a novel. The story is packed with historical detail and alternates between the past and present. I loved Elizabeth Ironside's "Death in the Garden" and this book did not disappoint.