Fiction
369 pages /887 KB
5 Stars
This was great fun. The author went back and forth between the backstory of World War II England and the present of 1952. I was pretty sure I'd figured out who done it by the end, but not the why. The fun with mysteries is, you don't know for sure until the end. And I was pleasantly surprised.
Toby Whitby is a solicitor (lawyer) who, when one of his bosses is killed, inherits the case he was working on. It is anything but a slam-dunk.
The Earl's daughter was secretly married to an American during the war and had a baby girl, Celeste after the husband was killed. Celeste was kidnapped and taken to America by one of the village girls who also married an American.
Mom never remarried and is about to become the sole heir to the Earl's estate. She must find her child, or when she dies, the estate goes to someone in Australia who will probably sell it to a land developer. Of course, she can't provide original documents, as those were lost in one of the bombing raids.
Toby goes to the estate and discusses the case with the Earl, and his daughter, and goes into town to talk to others. People involved with the case, no matter how peripherally, start showing up dead.
Can our near-blind lawyer figure it out in time? Can he get the right family reunited? Will he find the child before he gets offed? Will the red-headed woman in the post office love him as he loves her?
I have just ordered book two, Imposter.
No comments:
Post a Comment