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Benjamin Stevenson’s Ernest Cunningham mysteries have been dependably entertaining, and this latest adds a couple of spins to a fun series. This book does include murders, but theft is the crime “everyone” here commits. (In the first, everyone in Ernest’s family has killed someone.)
Ernest has become somewhat well known in Australia after writing several books detailing the mysteries he has solved, using the rules for classic detective fiction (such as fair play, ensuring the reader has all information the detective/writer has). He’s been in the middle of some dangerous situations. Now, he’d like to open a private agency to solve mysteries regularly but needs some cash to set up shop.
When he and his fiancée, Juliette, visit an old family-owned bank a long drive away from Sydney, they are hoping that Ernest’s pitch will be successful. Instead, they end up being taken hostage by an unusual robber who only wants one dollar from the bank’s vault. And, of course, since it’s Ernest, that’s not the only theft happening that day.
Ernest has a slew of cases to solve, and he has to do it quickly. Lives, including his own, hang in the balance.
If you enjoy heists and classic mysteries, this book and the whole series are nice picks to satisfy that itch.
Rated: Moderate. Profanity includes 5 uses of strong language, around 6 instances of moderate profanity, about 30 uses of mild language, fewer than 10 instances of the name of Deity in vain, and 11 uses of British (bl-) profanity. There is no sexual content; violence includes various injuries and deaths by different means. One of the latter is kind of gross but not gory.
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