Review: Wildfire at Midnight

Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

trying to be a Mary Stewart completist.

***

Nicci French will have to be included on the list of Stewart's literary descendants. Killing Me Softly echoes the mountain-climbing danger of this book. Stewart has also presented a lovely twist on the country house murder mystery. And, oh, man, does she evoke the the Isle of Skye. She even managed to make fly fishing sound good.

***

She doesn't stop to dine, but it's still a very long chase sequence. And I love seeing someone knock themself out with exertion, say climbing mountains, and then stopping for a smoke. I remember that was a thing, but it's a 20th century thing.

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