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I’m enjoying this series more as it goes along, getting to spend more time with Annie Adams, who solved her great-aunt Frances’ murder, and with Frances, through her copious journals. As always, in this third book, the story goes back and forth between the late 1960s, with Frances’ story, and the current day, with Annie’s. Now, Annie leaves her new home in the country to spend some time with her mother in London, where she grew up.
Unfortunately, murder just seems to follow her around; soon after her arrival, she finds the dead body of a young woman who was apprenticing with Laura, Annie’s artist mom. The victim’s heart was cut out, which seems unlikely to be coincidental, since the same thing happened to a friend of Frances’ in 1968. But how are the two cases connected, with 50 years in between?
Readers hear about Frances’ time in London when she went to university there and made some new friends. One was a socialite married to a much older man, a renowned heart surgeon. That woman ended up dead, her husband jailed for it.
Annie again looks into the case paired up with Rowan Crane, the detective in Castle Knoll who investigated the murders in the previous two books. He’s come up to London because of a personal connection. The two work well together, and it seems they could be more than friends, but could it happen? That’s the big question here, as much as the whodunit.
Perrin has definitely hit her stride and has plenty of material to continue to mine among this cast of characters (especially since she introduced a new wrinkle near the end of How to Cheat Your Own Death). She’ll be writing more, and I’ll be reading them.
Rated: Mild. Profanity includes 5 instances of moderate profanity, a few uses of mild language, 2 instances of the name of Deity in vain, and a use of British profanity. Sexual content includes brief kissing, some mentions of someone having affairs, and a closed-door reference. Violence includes several killings, references to defacing of corpses, and injuries.
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