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Farthing by Jo Walton
5.0
From Ali: Ahhhh, this book! I missed out on a lovely sunny Saturday, because I could not put it down. This is an excellent whodunit, set at a country estate in 1949. Except it's not the 1949 of our world, but one in which the British made peace with the Nazis in 1941, and Hitler continues to control most of Europe. The mystery had me guessing till the end, and the political machinations were fascinating. I cannot wait to read Ha'Penny!
From Dot: Both Farthing and Ha’penny were gripping reads and I polished them off in short order. The books look at a what –if scenario – England has signed a separate peace agreement with Hitler and is heading into fascism. Farthing is a murder mystery with this as the backdrop and the main character and her husband (a Jew) are set up to take the fall – the police inspector knows they are innocent but is blackmailed by his boss to say they are guilty. The same compromised inspector is in the second book Ha’penny and it too is a murder mystery with the political climate as a threatening backdrop. I can hardly wait to read Half A Crown!
From Dot: Both Farthing and Ha’penny were gripping reads and I polished them off in short order. The books look at a what –if scenario – England has signed a separate peace agreement with Hitler and is heading into fascism. Farthing is a murder mystery with this as the backdrop and the main character and her husband (a Jew) are set up to take the fall – the police inspector knows they are innocent but is blackmailed by his boss to say they are guilty. The same compromised inspector is in the second book Ha’penny and it too is a murder mystery with the political climate as a threatening backdrop. I can hardly wait to read Half A Crown!