In the wake of a referendum which has divided the nation, the last thing the Queen needs is any more problems to worry about. But when an oil painting of the Royal Yacht Britannia - first given to the Queen in the 1960s - shows up unexpectedly in a Royal Navy exhibition, she begins to realise that something is up.
When a body is found in the Palace swimming pool, she finds herself once again in the middle of an investigation which has more twists and turns than she could ever have suspected. With her trusted secretary Rozie by her side, the Queen is determined to solve the case. But will she be able to do it before the murderer strikes again?
When a body is found in the Palace swimming pool, she finds herself once again in the middle of an investigation which has more twists and turns than she could ever have suspected. With her trusted secretary Rozie by her side, the Queen is determined to solve the case. But will she be able to do it before the murderer strikes again?
Our wonderful guest reviewer is back. After his review of the first book in this series, The Windsor Knot, he's back to give us his opinion on this second volume.
Somewhere within this book is a decent whodunnit - but I had some
difficulty finding it. I found the plot unnecessarily complicated, with
too many separate sub-plots and linked events. Too many times, I had
to check back top see if I had missed something. Some of the
conclusions arrived at on the way to solving the mysteries seemed to
have been arrived at by intuition rather than deduction.
I
also found myself increasingly distracted by the basic concept on which
the book is built - the notion of Queen Elizabeth 2 as a solver of
crimes - and by what was, for me, the intrusion of events around the
royal family circle which had nothing to do with the story.
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