Agatha Christie meets The Mitford Murders in this deliciously dark
golden age mystery of wartime family secrets and lies in small town
England. **DON'T MISS THE LASTEST JOSEPHINE FOX MYSTERY, A CONFLICT
OF INTERESTS. OUT NOW!** April 1941, Romsey, England. Josephine
'Jo' Fox hasn't set foot in Romsey in over twenty years. As an
illegitimate child, her family - headed by her controlling
grandfather - found her an embarrassment. Now, she wants to return
to what was once her home and uncover the secret of her parentage.
Who was her father and why would her mother never talk about him?
Jo arrives the day after the Luftwaffe have bombed the town. The
local pub has been completely destroyed and rescue teams are
searching for the remains of the seven people known to have been in
the pub at the time the bomb hit. They are shocked, however, to
uncover eight bodies instead. The eighth, unidentified, body is
that of a teenage girl, who no one in the town claims to know. Who
is she, how did she get there, but most importantly - who killed
her? Teaming up with local coroner and old friend, Bram Nash, Jo
sets out to establish the identity of the girl and solve the riddle
of her death. In doing so, she also uncovers her own personal
mystery. Everyone has secrets - some are just more deadly than
others . . .
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Wed, 2 Oct 2019 | Review
by: Breakaway R.
1941 Romsey based whodunit
Our main character Jo is on her return to Romsey the town of her birth. Jo, an illegitimate child, has been made to carry the guilt of her mother’s dalliance and was finally banished from Romsey at age 14 by her grandfather after the death of her grandmother.
Jo then flees to London and later rekindles her relationship with her mother during her dying days, who let’s slip her father is still alive and living in Romsey. Jo, now a more confident adult is determined to find her father and know the truth.
However, Jo arrives just after a bomb has hit the local pub, the search for bodies soon turns into the murder investigation of a young girl. Jo persuades her old friend the coroner Nash Bram to employ her as his assistant; they have history from childhood and London.
The investigation of the dead girl opens up a story of historic abuse on a large scale, and Jo's family are intertwined throughout, how can Nash and Jo bring these people to justice and will resolving this murder give Jo the truth of her past?
An entertaining story which kept my attention, the characters are well-formed and you can feel their trauma as events unfold. It was an easy read, and I would recommend this book.
Taramindo.
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