This
is a fun cozy mystery. Who would have thought the Queen would be such
a good amateur sleuth. I appreciate how the Queen had to arrange an
investigation into the murder without offending the prime
investigator who was on a very wrong trajectory. I love how the
official investigator, as well as many others, totally underestimated
the Queen's ability and how she used that to her advantage.
While
the murder plot is good but quite complex, I think the strength of
this novel is the detail Bennett gives readers regarding the every
day events of the royal household. I appreciated the many
activities Bennett describes, such as the Queen checking her nostrils
for nose hairs.
I
enjoyed this entertaining novel. While I feel the resolution of the
murder was quite complex and was resolved with information we readers
didn't know in a timely manner, the details included in this book
were so interesting I'll be looking for the next in the series.
You
can read a sample here.
My
rating: 4/5 stars.
S J
Bennett has a PhD in Italian Literature from the University of
Cambridge and was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co before
becoming a professional writer. She has published ten books for
teenagers, winning the Times/Chicken House Competition for Threads
in 2009 and the Romantic Novel of the Year award for Love Song
in 2017. She lives in London and has been a royal watcher for years.
You can find out more at https://www.sjbennettbooks.com/.
Photo credit: K T Bruce.
William
Morrow, 288 pages.
I
received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. My
comments are an independent and honest review.
(My
star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it,
1-I hate it.)
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