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Angel Dust (Agnes Carmichael Mysteries Book 9) Kindle Edition

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Book 9 of 18: Agnes Carmichael Mysteries

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Sister Agnes Carmichael has finally decided it’s time for her to retire. Leaving the casualty department at Hemmington General, one she’d grown fond of, was a large step for her.

Leaving her beautiful cottage was another step towards the new life she envisioned.

Unable to settle as a retiree, Sister Carmichael takes up another position at a private hospital.

Things are very different here - starting with the patients, whose privileges entitle them to a level above the average person.

Getting used to their ways was a learning curve for Sister Carmichael.

Still settling into her new life, Sister Carmichael decides to take up lodgings at a small boarding house while she searches for the cottage of her dreams.

Her co-lodger, Mr Stevens is up to something, but Carmichael can’t work out what it is.

Eager to learn more about the man, she spends more time with him but the outcome isn’t pleasant.

Mr Stevens has a dark side...

Mr Stevens and Mr Beresford, a senior surgeon at Sister Carmichael’s new workplace, have a deep history.

But Sister Carmichael likes Mr Beresford and fails to believe how Mr Stevens’ accusations tally with the man she is beginning to know.

When one of her patients from the private hospital puts her house up for sale, Carmichael decides it is the cottage she wants. Little did she know she’d befriend the owner and become embroiled in her life.

Then, Mr Beresford’s son’s friend is found dead in a toilet cubicle.

The boy is related to Sister Carmichael's new-found house-owner friend, and she feels the need to support the frail old woman in her hour of need.

Digging deeper into the circumstances behind the young man’s death, Sister Carmichael decides it’s time for her to step in in her usual way.

The police can’t be relied upon.

They were too slack with their punishments - and this was a crime that needed her form of punishment…

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‘The suspense in Angels Without Mercy is thrilling’ – Thomas Waugh

Anthea Cohen is the pseudonym for the acclaimed author of the Agnes Carmichael Series. For the past twenty-five years she has worked, on and off, in hospitals and as a private nurse. She has written on medicine and hospital life, been a columnist for Nursing Mirror, and has contributed regularly to World Medicine. She has published innumerable short stories, and is a popular author of books for teenagers.

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Agnes Carmichael Mysteries
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073S7YVBW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lume Books (July 6, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2155 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 228 pages

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A. Riley

Author Anthea Cohen writes a story like no other

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017

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Author Anthea Cohen writes a story like no other. Don't read this book first. There are a dozen other titles and fascinating stories with Agnes Carmichael as the main character. The theme is always murder!

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Rhiw Sider

The clues are there.

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2017

Review of Angel Dust by Anthea Cohen, Endeavour Press, originally released circa 1988.

What is perhaps the first of the Angel series by Anthea Cohen is a slow burner. I chose to read this one later than Angel In Action and I am glad I did because otherwise I might have well given up. There is a lot of back story here and the author makes full use of her skill to describe places, people and locations. She paints the scenery very well.

Few things niggle me more than consistency. An example of this is the use of the word “Sister” when used to address a nurse’s rank or position, rather than the familial usage. Example: ‘You’re new, sister. ‘should be “You’re new Sister.” When speaking to the Nursing Sister.

Another seems to be the author’s problem of not relating well to the main lead. I wonder perhaps if the author was indeed a nursing sister in her own right. Her discipline may have taught her to talk to her subordinates by their surname but seeing as she (the author) is leading with the main character I would have expected to see the use of either Agnes or Agnes Carmichael as the situation demanded. After all you are talking about, of, or to yourself. To use the name ‘Carmichael’ because you are tired or cannot construct an alternative is tardy.

Typo errors are minimal but repetition in close proximity is another bug I try to iron out of my writing. Example: "..... escaped to the changing room, to get out of her theatre gear, dress and drive home. She glanced out of a window on her way to the changing room." The work does not need the repetition.

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Agnes Carmichael is an excellent nurse but she is calling it a day at the hospital and retiring. Inherited wealth means that she does not need to work but then she does because what else would she do? She longs to settle down, have a close relationship, lovely house and friends and maybe marry one day. In Angel Dust we find out how close she gets to achieving all of this. Agnes also has a rich vein of right and wrong running through her veins and this can lead her into danger. Danger it seems that fate will nullify for her.

Before long Agnes moves on to work in a private hospital where the wards are less crowded, patients are more forthright and the staff as overworked as always. Doctors are usually consultants from other hospitals and the chef is a right pain in the “-------.” In her search for that perfect new home, Agnes finds a cottage she would like to buy in a pretty village, by a river. As luck would have it, it is owned by a patient she has recently looked after at the private hospital, Lavinia Leyton. During one conversation Lavinia lets on that she is worried about a grandnephew and asks Agnes to investigate his situation. Thus begins Agnes’ search al those who are selling Angel Dust to the young and old of the area, and to close the supply down for good.

Three murders and three drug overdoses, one tonsillectomy, one affair revealed and one proposal never heard will take you to the end, but quite the end, there is still one more twist that makes little sense unless you have read the rest of the book. The clues are there.

This an easy book to read, and my mentor Bethany Briggs would love some of textual tapestry, woven in such a way to convey the perfect imagery of the perfect village by a perfect stretch of river, in England. Much of this is what I meant by the book being a slow burner. If is action, dark egos, handsome men with bodies that ripple the turn away now. This is more Woman's Weekly (UK magazine) than OK, Heat or The Vagenda.
Simple plot, nicely told, don’t forget the twist.

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Agnes is an anti-hero like no other

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2017

Let me preface this with saying that I have long been a fan of Agnes Carmichael, the main character of this novel, and I was beyond excited to find out that Endeavour Press are doing new releases of the series because I have really struggled to get my hands on several of the books in the series, including this one. So, needless to say, when I was offered a copy of the novel by Endeavour in exchange for review, I jumped at the chance. Warning: the Agnes Carmichael novels are addictive.

Agnes is an anti-hero like no other, she doles out justice to those who hurt others (human or animal) in her own vigilante way, and yet she is so very ordinary. It would be hard to find a character who is similar to her - she is strong and independent, yet she is vulnerable and insecure, a perpetual outsider who cannot quite figure out the intricacies of social interactions with others, with no special talents or superpowers. I have seen her described as utterly charmless. And yet, it is difficult not to like her, even if certain decisions of hers are morally questionable. Agnes is an orphan, utterly alone in the world, and very proud of her nursing career. She is 55 now, and in one of the earlier novels in the series she receives a substantial inheritance from a former patient and the money changes her life, allowing her to eventually overcome some of the insecurities that have been plaguing her for years.

Each novel deals with a different set of events in Agnes' life, and there are 18 books in the series, written between 1982 and 2005. You do NOT need to read them in order, they are quite stand-alone and there are few recurring characters. It is however interesting to watch character development occur as Agnes tries to get used to being wealthy and learning to interact with a different social circle. This particular novel is right in the middle of the series and has Agnes struggle with her changing social position, romantic advances from an eligible bachelor as well as dealing with drug dealers who are targeting a local school.

Apart from seeing justice being doled out in the "eye for an eye" manner, you also get a voyeuristic glimpse into the life of someone who had nothing, and suddenly finds herself with a fortune - what's not to like?

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Claire

A good book

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2018

But what a disappointing ending! Where's the next in the series. I am pretty upset. I shall try to find the third book of the series.

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Peter Dare

In Love Again

Reviewed in Spain on January 27, 2019

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The saga continues for Agnes Carmichael but she is getting more sophisticated and kinder even though she still likes to carry out the odd murder. She is becoming more liked by people but I preferred the other Agnes hence the 3 stars. Still worth a read and I look forward to the next book in the series.

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