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Title: Flitting through Oxford
Review: I picked up this mystery because I enjoy English settings. Oxford is an important character in this diverting novel. It is a quick read, and often entertaining. On the whole, however, I was disappointed in it. One of the main characters has lost her memory, and consequently is presented very vaguely; it is hard to care about a character so illy defined. I think the novel would have been stronger if we had a sense of Angel's character earlier. Stallwood shifts the narrative voice from character to character almost paragraph by paragraph, I had a sense I was developing ADD. A light, diverting read, but Stallwood cannot develop characterization as well as Margaret Yorke.
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