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A review by sarahbook1
The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith
5.0
I stumbled across The Jazz Files while in my local library. I checked it out based on the description on the back of the book and was not disappointed.
The Jazz Files is the first book in the Poppy Denby series. Poppy is summoned to London to help take care of her wheelchair bound aunt. When she arrives, she finds that her aunt doesn’t need her help, but instead she has brought Poppy to London because she wants her to start a career. Poppy begins her career at a Fleet Street newspaper, but quickly finds herself in the midst of a criminal investigation that surrounds her aunt and her aunt’s friends from her days as a suffragette.
One element of this book I really appreciated was the map and cast of characters in the front of the book. This helped put a sense of place to where the events were taking place. The cast of characters helped identify any characters that I had lost track of. In addition in a couple places in the book, the author essentially created a summary of the facts as they existed at that point. This was helpful to make sure I was following the same line of thinking that the author intended.
I found this first book in the series to be very enjoyable. Readers of Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope books would find this enjoyable. It is also very akin to the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear, however the reading isn’t as strenuous.
I enjoyed this book and I look forward to the second book due out in November in the US.
The Jazz Files is the first book in the Poppy Denby series. Poppy is summoned to London to help take care of her wheelchair bound aunt. When she arrives, she finds that her aunt doesn’t need her help, but instead she has brought Poppy to London because she wants her to start a career. Poppy begins her career at a Fleet Street newspaper, but quickly finds herself in the midst of a criminal investigation that surrounds her aunt and her aunt’s friends from her days as a suffragette.
One element of this book I really appreciated was the map and cast of characters in the front of the book. This helped put a sense of place to where the events were taking place. The cast of characters helped identify any characters that I had lost track of. In addition in a couple places in the book, the author essentially created a summary of the facts as they existed at that point. This was helpful to make sure I was following the same line of thinking that the author intended.
I found this first book in the series to be very enjoyable. Readers of Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope books would find this enjoyable. It is also very akin to the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear, however the reading isn’t as strenuous.
I enjoyed this book and I look forward to the second book due out in November in the US.