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Quentin Cadbury has dropped out of law school and gone job to job, never staying long at any of them. At 24, he is a disappointment to his retired-military father but doted on by his mother. When his parents leave London to live near his sister in Australia, he is told he’ll have to take care of himself — but he will have a place to live rent-free. His mother’s late sister left her house to Quentin’s mom, and it becomes his new home.
Soon after he moves in, the house is broken into and left in utter disarray. Someone clearly was looking for something — but nothing seems to have been taken. Soon after, Quentin interrupts another break-in.
Quentin is completely mystified about why someone is targeting the house. It’s a simple two-bedroom terraced home where a couple of modest means lived. When a beautiful new neighbor moves in, he ends up getting to know her and sharing what’s been going on. Wanda, a widowed woman of perhaps 40, has time on her hands, and the two decide to become amateur sleuths and solve the mystery.
Of course, doing so (and not involving the police) puts them in danger, and each is holding back some secrets from the other. But they are determined to figure out the full story behind the break-ins.
The Mystery of the Hidden Fortune is a serviceable cozy mystery that I read all in one sitting. It’s light and entertaining reading that’s also fairly clean. Nothing particularly memorable, but it was free to read using Kindle Unlimited.
Rated: Mild. Profanity includes around a few instances of moderate profanity, about 20 uses of mild language, and 15 instances of the name of Deity in vain. There are also about 30 uses of British (bl-) profanity. Sexual content includes kissing and several occasions of mostly off-screen sex (with a few mentions of women’s bodies and removal of clothing). Violence includes some injuries from attacks and accidents as well as threats with guns.
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