A review by tessyoung
In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross

3.0

I read one of the instalments in this series some years ago and remember looking out for others but to no avail. Fast forward to the charity shelf in the local supermarket when visiting my Mum and I was reminded of the series by finding the second book in the series. I snapped it up and then decided to start at the beginning with the kindle version of this, the series opener, on my phone app. A quick diverting read, I enjoyed this one too and am looking forward to working my way through these. I like the literary allusions and the protagonist Kate Fansler. I really enjoyed the literary references and their role in the plot lines so look forward to more of this, on the other hand the references to psychoanalysis were a little clunky but not annoyingly so. The class politics were annoying however. While Kate would be unlikely to have the education, contacts and luxury of engaging in amateur sleuthing and employing her soon to be nephew-in-law to help out, if she had not been well off, some of the attitudes towards the of lower social class are somewhat offensive to this reader.