By Barbara Cleverly
Rated:★★★★
I really like this author. This is the fifth book in her Joe Sandilands mysteries. In 1926, Scotland Yard Commander Joe Sandilands has come home to England after working cases in India over the last few years (see first book in this series "The Last Kashmiri Rose)
Although the locale changes, the scene does not as Joe is assigned to a homicide investigation. Someone brutally battered renowned Dame Beatrice Joliffe in her hotel suite at the London Ritz.The victim was acclaimed for her efforts in WWI to establish the Women's Royal Naval Service as a Wren. Joe is assisted by an old Army buddy Sergeant Armitage and Constable Tilly Westhorpe.
This is an excellent whodunit enhanced by a terrific look at the London dudring the Roaring Twenties Joe's change of milieu provides freshness to this great series as he and his team investigate a case that twists with every clue.
