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Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
by Rhys Bowen
In this latest entry in the Royal Spyness series, Georgie and Darcy finally are married and they set off for Kenya on the second stage of their honeymoon. Only Georgie quickly discerns that the trip is part of an assignment from the Foreign Office for Darcy, and soon they are embroiled in possible robbery, treason, and a very definite murder.
While the Kenyan locale was interesting, I found this story less engrossing than most of the previous ones in the series. For someone who had been involved in solving multiple previous murders and mysteries, Georgie seemed unrealistically naive and clumsy in her approach both to the debauchery around her and to the murder. At one point, she almost blabbed to relative strangers about Darcy’s secret vocation, and her wide-eyed “golly” response to much of what she saw got to be a bit annoying.
Furthermore, aspects of the mystery were left to inference and a couple other plotlines were wrapped up hastily at the end by other people, making for an unsatisfying conclusion to the couple’s adventure.
This was not a particularly strong addition to the series, but I’m hoping for better in Georgie and Darcy’s next outing.
While the Kenyan locale was interesting, I found this story less engrossing than most of the previous ones in the series. For someone who had been involved in solving multiple previous murders and mysteries, Georgie seemed unrealistically naive and clumsy in her approach both to the debauchery around her and to the murder. At one point, she almost blabbed to relative strangers about Darcy’s secret vocation, and her wide-eyed “golly” response to much of what she saw got to be a bit annoying.
Furthermore, aspects of the mystery were left to inference
Spoiler
like who exactly had been trying to kill them and whySpoiler
including the supposedly stolen diamond and the mystery of who Jocelyn really was and what he was doingThis was not a particularly strong addition to the series, but I’m hoping for better in Georgie and Darcy’s next outing.