3. Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn (Historical Mystery) 246 p.
15th in the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series. Daisy, six months pregnant with her first child, visits Edge Manor, the home of an old school friend, to write an article about the family’s annual Guy Fawkes Day celebration for an American magazine.
Her stay is rather spoiled by the murder of her host and another guest, a visiting Australian woman invited on the spur of the moment. Naturally, with Daisy on the scene, her husband Alec Fletcher, a Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, is called in to investigate.
Aside from the Daisy Dalrymple series, Carola Dunn also writes the only Regency romances I’ve ever been able to stomach. No matter what genre she writes in, her stories are always comforting, perfect for a cold, grey day. They always cheer me up.
It doesn’t matter that I guessed the motive for the murderer, and the identity of the murderer, before the crime had even been committed; I don’t read these books to find out the solution to the mystery (although usually I don’t guess it ahead of time), but for the pleasure of reading a light, engaging novel about 1920’s England.
Books read: 3
Pages read: 830
