Rating: 
Summary: One of the best!
Review: Unfortunately, I didn't see the BBC TV series but it must have been great. Mathilda Gillespie is a bitter, nasty woman who is found dead in her bath, naked with her wrists slashed and wearing a horrible middle ages contraption called a scold's bridle on her head. The bridle was a metal head collar which held down the tongue, effectively, if cruelly, silencing the wearer.Mathilda was generally disliked so there are quite a few candidates on the police list of suspects. It's a great murder mystery which I enjoyed tremendously.
Rating: 
Summary: A good read for mystery lovers
Review: Walters has woven a narrative that starts out rather slow and takes untilt he middle of the book to really get the reader interested. Nontheless, her ability to develop god characters, contrary to other opinions I have seen here, are excellent. The tangled web that surrounds the life of a wretched and sometimes-wicked old lady is startling and the reader is anxious to know who the killer is - if even there is one.
It is good to read a non-American novel, with good British prose amidst the culture of small-town nosiness. With a mixture of homour and horror, Walters writes a good tale that gives credence to her fame as a world-class mystery writer.
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