2009 mystery/thriller, third in its series. Georgiana Rannoch, 34th in
line to the throne, travels to Scotland to try to find out who's
trying to arrange "accidents" for various of the Royal Family…
This is very much the book I expected it to be. Which isn't a bad
thing, but I do like to be a little surprised as part of my
entertainment. Very much as with the previous books, Georgie keeps an
eye on events without actually doing much, tries to work out what's
going on, and drifts slowly closer to the unsuitable man who is
clearly her destined partner.
I did enjoy the (plausible for the period) characters involved in
aviation and water speed record attempts, and a different twist on a
certain historical conspiracy theory, but somehow it all felt a bit
predestined. Some of that's inevitable: the setting is meant to be
something like the real world, so we know that for example That
Simpson Woman will not be sent away by David (the future
Edward VIII). But I think that's a reason to try to push harder for
uncertainty in other matters; but, well, this is a mystery of sorts,
and it's going to have a happy ending, and the reader's sense of
inevitability is of course not shared by the characters. It's an
awkward feeling.
It's all right. But if it had been the first book I read I probably
shouldn't have bothered with another; this one's really nothing
special.
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