A review by softstarrynights
The Bloody Tower by Carola Dunn

3.0

The Bloody Tower is the sixteenth book in the Daisy Dalrymple series, of cosy murder mysteries set in 1920s England. These books generally are pretty short, rarely even surpassing 300 pages, and so I tend to finish them relatively quickly. Unfortunately, this one was much harder to follow and so took me a lot longer. Of course, there's nothing wrong with taking your time with a book, but I read these because they are short and so this was a somewhat frustrating experience. Daisy visits the Tower of London in order to write an article for her American publisher when she discovers the body of one of the Yeoman Warders. There were so many Yeoman Warders, as one might expect from the Tower of London, that I had no idea what was going on half of the time. I'm happy to admit that this may just have been my lack of concentration because Dunn does spend time explaining the conventions of the tower. I don't think that this particular mystery was for me, but I'm sure than most people would enjoy it. I also don't think that it will stop me from carrying on with the series. Sure, this was not my favourite by a long shot, but you can't win them all.