The writing was odd - it seems like there were so many passages where I had to go back and re-read because transitions weren't there or sequences of sentences in a paragraph were jumbled. I got frustrated. ( )

Kate Shackleton and members of the amateur photography group to which she belongs are headed out for a field trip to the village of Haworth where the Bronte Society is about to receive the Haworth Parsonage to create a museum. There are numerous entanglements among the seven photographers, and when one of them is found to have been stabbed to death while standing in a crush of people attending the ceremonies related to the Parsonage, it is up to Kate to resolve the relationships and point toward a murderer…. I am enjoying the Kate Shackleton series, especially for its depiction of life in England in the 1920s. Here, the art of photography as a popular pastime for amateurs, the social ramifications of illicit relationships and the ways in which husbands and fathers control the lives of wives and daughters despite the fact that women are fully emancipated by this date, all combine with literary and landscape portraitures to recreate a place and time not really that different from our own; recommended. ( )

1928 and at the Headingly Photographic Society meeting an outings is proposed. Agreement is reached to visit Haworth to coincide with the presentation of deeds of the Haworth Parsonage to the Bronte Society. Seven menbers including Kate Shackleton and her niece Harriet Armstrong arrange to go but not all will return.
A somewhat slow paced well-written cozy mystery as we learn about the main characters and deeds from the past. Overall an enjoyable read.
A NetGalley Book ( )

Kate Shackleton is a member of a local photography club; seven of whose members go on a weekend shoot to the opening of the Bronte Museum at the setting of Wuthering Heights.

When Carine's husband, the much loathed Tobias, is stabbed while amidst the crowd of those attending the museum's opening ceremony; Kate steps in to help Carine.

Tobias had many enemies, including those in the town where the opening is being held.

A quick and interesting read. ( )

In 1928, a Photography Society outing to Haworth to see the opening of the new Bronte Parsonage Museum has an unexpected outcome. One of the group does not go home alive. ‘A Snapshot of Murder’ by Frances Brody is tenth in the Kate Shackleton 1920s detective series, a satisfying story about jealousy, long lost love and betrayal.
Kate’s friend Carine Murchison runs a photographic studio with her boorish husband Tobias. Derek, friend of Kate’s niece Harriet, has a theory that Tobias wants his wife dead so he can inherit the studio. But the story is so much more complicated. Throw in a long lost lover returned, the wonderfully scratchy mother and daughter landladies of Ponden Hall near Haworth where the Photography Society stays, the flamboyant Rita who dresses in Indian silks and works in a pharmacy, and a London policeman and former love of Kate who arrives to investigate the murder, and there are plenty of options for arguments, jealousy, upsets and both rejected and reciprocated love. The echoes of the Brontes are welcome too, but Brody never allows this to dominate her story.
This is a character-led crime drama. Kate’s world is created with skill by Brody, I particularly enjoyed Mrs Sugden, Mr Sykes and the addition of Sergeant Dog who plays a key role. Kate investigates with a combination of skill learned from watching her policeman father and a sense of human nature of which Miss Marple would be proud.
The shadow of the Great War hangs over the story with everyone touched in some way by the conflict. Brody twists and turns our emotions, and her reveal of the facts, so our sympathy and dislike of characters is always in flow and the true stories of victim and perpetrator are never simple.
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