Reviews for Mr. Meeson's Will

The average rating for Mr. Meeson's Will based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-17 00:00:00 Robert Tubbs The idea looked interesting, and I like the era, but the writing put me off. One of the things that will always stop me reading a book is clunkiness and melodrama. This veers into both - not all the time, but enough to make me not want to bother.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-07-28 00:00:00 Jim Karey By THOMAS PERRY In 2001, an editor at Scribner sent me the manuscript of a first novel called TheJasmine Trade by a Los Angeles Times reporter named Denise Hamilton. It was an intriguing, contemporary story built around some Asian teenagers whose parents left them on their own in San Marino mansions while they returned to distant countries to run their businesses. I wrote an enthusiastic endorsement. Since then, there have been four more well-received novels and an anthology called Los Angeles Noir. So I didn't open Hamilton's new book, The Last Embrace,without expectations. In it, Hamilton resuscitates one of the great, enduring fictional situations, the one in which a lone, mysterious stranger shows up in a small town and begins asking questions about a missing person. It's the plot of Bad Day at Black Rock and of High Plains Drifter. Only in Hamilton's rendition, both the stranger and the victim are beautiful young women, and the corrupt, cowardly little town is Hollywood. It's October 1949. After the long trip from Champaign, Illinois, Lily Kessler steps off a train at Union Station, looking like one of the legion of pretty, naive newcomers seeking an acting career. She's actually something else, a woman who spent the war in Europe spying for the OSS, and she has the skills of an investigator, the persistence of a termite and a sacred trust to fulfill. The mother of her fiancé, an OSS officer killed in Europe, has asked her to find her only remaining child, an actress called Kitty Hayden, who left her boarding house one night and didn't return. Read the rest of Thomas Perry's review here: