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Thursday, May 27, 2021
The Moonlit Murders (Fen Churche mystery No. 3) Fliss Chester
The war is over and it is 1945. There is a lot of jubilation to be returning home from France for Fen Churche. She hasn't seen family and friends for years and is looking forward to going home. An overnight journey to Southampton turns into a longer journey to New York on the invitation of Eloise and her snooty aunt Mrs. Archer to join them and act as companion to Eloise.
On the outward journey when Mrs. Archer's jewels of which she is inordinately proud, are lost and when a body is discovered in a lifeboat by Fen and Eloise all hell breaks loose on the ship. The Captain wants to keep the matter as closed as possible, as this kind of publicity can lead to uneasiness amongst all his passengers. At least till they reach New York and can hand it over to the Police there.
Sleuthing on behalf of Mrs Archer (reluctantly on her part) Fen and James (her friend from stories past) try to solve the mystery of the dead German and then find the missing jewels, all on the few days they have left to them, before they dock at New York.
A lot of history interspersed with detection was well told. Descriptive too.
Sent by Bookouture for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoy a good locked room type mystery. This one sounds like fun!
ReplyDeleteLike the time period and the sound of this one. :)
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