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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I am not normally a fan of historical mystery, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and plan to read the rest of the series. I have enjoyed the Joe Sandilands series in the past, but this novel seems so childish. The characters and writing are immature, like reading a book for teens. I like the emergence of a new character, Lily Wentworth. Joe seems to be a tamer and older version of the Joe living in India. This story involves the Russian aristocracy, and the stories surrounding the death of Tsar Nicholas and his family. Again, the story is not well written. Twisty mystery, with a not entirely satisfactory conclusion. Commander Joe Sandilands, now high up in Scotland Yard, recruits a young Woman Police Constable to help him with a series of high-profile murders, quite possibly the work of Irish terrorists. Or not. There is also a young Russian woman on the loose. Lily is a wonderful character.
Once again, Barbara Cleverly proves she’s one of the best of the neo-Golden Age authors. Her Joe Sandilands series, now nine books strong, has arrived at 1922, the Irish Rebellion and the years following the Russian Revolution. After a stint on the continent, Joe is back in harness at London’s Metropolitan Police. But the world is in flux and the head of CID is also called to head up the Special Irish Branch as well as maintain an eye on Czarist émigrés running a spy network out of Kensington Palace. When a politician is assassinated, Joe has to investigate. This is the best so far in a superior series, one fans of Charles Todd or Jacqueline Winspear won’t want to miss. Pertenece a las series
Fiction.
Mystery.
On his return from India, Commander Joe Sandilands, now adept at the arts of dynamic diplomacy, finds himself up to his neck in a tricky political situation. A war-weary London is reeling from IRA atrocities and Joe is further plagued by the machinations of a spy-ring being run under his nose by a Russian emigree princess. When a war hero is gunned down and the life of an even more popular Englishman threatened, Joe knows he only has days to root out the woman who is behind the killings: Irish? Russian? Or somebody quite other? With the aid of the proposed victim who offers himself as bait, and the services of a woman police constable, Joe discovers that the murderer's motive is not political but much more devious and deranged. And when the mask comes off, the killer's identity shocks even the battle-hardened commander. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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