Dying In The Wool
Just finished reading "Dying In The Wool" by Frances Brody, published by Minotaur Books.
Writing under her pen name of Frances Brody, playwright and novelist Frances McNeil, who is best known for her radio tele-dramas, launched the first novel of her Kate Shackleton historical mystery series back in 2009.
Like so many other Englishwomen in the 1920s, 31-year-old Kate Shackleton is a war widow. She is living on her own and has had some success in tracking down missing men for friends - sometimes the men died in the War, sometimes they just left their former life to start anew. She is excited, if nervous, to take her first paying case - a fellow Voluntary Aid Detachment woman, Tabitha, asks her to see if she can locate her father, who went missing in 1916, so that he can walk her down the aisle at her upcoming wedding. The family owns a wool mill and is very prominent in their region, but the general consensus is that the man, distraught over the death of his son, killed himself; Kate, however, soon finds that nothing is quite as it appears and that the gap of six years since his disappearance has only served to further muddy the waters.
Now "Dying In The Wool" does start off slowly in introducing Kate and builds up to the mystery slowly, yet it is very enjoyable historical mystery cozy.
Highly Recommended!
Four-and-a-half Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Wool-Kat...
Writing under her pen name of Frances Brody, playwright and novelist Frances McNeil, who is best known for her radio tele-dramas, launched the first novel of her Kate Shackleton historical mystery series back in 2009.
Like so many other Englishwomen in the 1920s, 31-year-old Kate Shackleton is a war widow. She is living on her own and has had some success in tracking down missing men for friends - sometimes the men died in the War, sometimes they just left their former life to start anew. She is excited, if nervous, to take her first paying case - a fellow Voluntary Aid Detachment woman, Tabitha, asks her to see if she can locate her father, who went missing in 1916, so that he can walk her down the aisle at her upcoming wedding. The family owns a wool mill and is very prominent in their region, but the general consensus is that the man, distraught over the death of his son, killed himself; Kate, however, soon finds that nothing is quite as it appears and that the gap of six years since his disappearance has only served to further muddy the waters.
Now "Dying In The Wool" does start off slowly in introducing Kate and builds up to the mystery slowly, yet it is very enjoyable historical mystery cozy.
Highly Recommended!
Four-and-a-half Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Wool-Kat...
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