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==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Gillian Galbraith
|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has a gruesome murder on her hands. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has had to give up a lucrative and interesting career due to ill-health. He's now merely existing. He's waiting to die, basically. He wants to die. So straight away, the plot starts to thicken nicely. We're introduced to a clutch of characters, or, more appropriately, suspects. Apart from the immediate family, the extended family, there's also various others, home helps etc. It seems several people have an axe to grind as far as the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concerned. You have to ask yourself the question at this point, who'd murder a frail, almost-dead man? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable to have put up any sort of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kitten. He's so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gladys Mitchell