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The Midnight Hour
by Elly Griffiths
This was a good mystery, although I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read the rest of the series first. This book is the latest in the DI Stephens and Max Mephisto series.
The Midnight Hour begins with the death of Bert Billington, former actor and producer. Bert was poisoned, and his wife Verity hires the new detective agency of Emma Holmes and Sam Collins to find out who killed him. However, that puts Emma in direct "competition" with her husband, Edgar Stephens, with the Brighton Police force, who also is trying to solve the case.
Novice police officer Meg Connolly is excited to be involved in the case; women police officers were rarely assigned anything more than traffic duty in the 1960s, when this book is set. When Meg and the other police officers investigate the case, they find out that Bert was a serial cheater who wasn't well-liked by anyone, other than his youngest son. There are plenty of people from his past who could have committed the crime, especially since Bert once played the Rat King and was poisoned with rat poison. Emma and Meg team up to investigate the suspects, and find out much more than they want to about the lives of Verity and her sons, Max Mephisto, and Max's wife Lydia.
As I said at the beginning of this review, I wish I had read the others in this series before.I began this book. However, even without the background on the characters, I could enjoy solving the mystery along with the characters.
Thanks to Netgalley for the advance reader's copy of this fun mystery.
The Midnight Hour begins with the death of Bert Billington, former actor and producer. Bert was poisoned, and his wife Verity hires the new detective agency of Emma Holmes and Sam Collins to find out who killed him. However, that puts Emma in direct "competition" with her husband, Edgar Stephens, with the Brighton Police force, who also is trying to solve the case.
Novice police officer Meg Connolly is excited to be involved in the case; women police officers were rarely assigned anything more than traffic duty in the 1960s, when this book is set. When Meg and the other police officers investigate the case, they find out that Bert was a serial cheater who wasn't well-liked by anyone, other than his youngest son. There are plenty of people from his past who could have committed the crime, especially since Bert once played the Rat King and was poisoned with rat poison. Emma and Meg team up to investigate the suspects, and find out much more than they want to about the lives of Verity and her sons, Max Mephisto, and Max's wife Lydia.
As I said at the beginning of this review, I wish I had read the others in this series before.I began this book. However, even without the background on the characters, I could enjoy solving the mystery along with the characters.
Thanks to Netgalley for the advance reader's copy of this fun mystery.