Sing My Love

Book Review of Black is the Color of My True Love's Heart by Ellis Peters 

Who did it? Not who you think, and does he/she get away with it? Another interesting fact about this mystery is that the setting is really a character. Everything takes place at a music school, Follymead. (ominous title)

Fighting begins with singing ballads. From the songs we learn who are lovers, former lovers, and soon-to-be-lovers. When one of the "star guests" disappears, the reader suspects his ex-girl friend. Later on, the reader is led to suspect the "girlfriend wannabe."
Things are not at all what you suspect, even who is dead and who isn't. Can you follow me?
No? Good. That's the point. Ellis Peters has written another "who-done-it" with her usual flair.

"Black is the Color of My True Love's Heart"

Neverending White Lights

Blood and the Life Eternal

Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Heart

Bless your heart

And your tired eyes

And try to keep your strength

Your life bleeds like the red I wore

On my lips as skin turned pale

Take this breath

For the lives we waste

For the hollow souls we own

Give me hope

For a restless heart

Where we'll go no one will follow, close

I swear to god I only fall apart

I swear to god I only fall apart

You've waited all your life

To take this from my blood

Indebted to you, indebted to me

Indebted to god until we bleed

This life will last