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Dying in the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1)

Frances Brody

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Sep 27, 2014 Windy rated it liked it

I found this to be very drawn out which was made worse by my guessing whodunnit very early on so I grew impatient.

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Jan 08, 2015 Andrea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fun-mysteries

I picked this up not expecting too much, so I was quite surprised. 1920s British mysteries with feisty young female heroines seems to be quite a popular genre lately and I've enjoyed a few. Brody, however, manages to stand out from the crowd with more sophisticated narrative technique (sections viewed through various characters' viewpoints), keeping the "period details" to a minimum and constructing a plausible and interesting mystery. Definitely the best of the type that I've read so far. ...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Nancy H rated it really liked it

This is an excellent mystery set in England and very reminiscent of the Maisie Dobbs novels, a sort of a cross between an Agatha Christie and a Maisie Dobbs novel. Kate Shackleton is the main character who is a sort of semi-professional investigator, specializing in finding out the fate of those men who went missing in World War I and were not returned home. An acquaintance calls her and asks her to come to her estate and help find out what happened to the head of the estate and thriving wool bu ...more

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