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Private
Investigator (and former Scotland Yard inspector) Daniel Wilson
is back on another case with his archaeologist partner, Abigail
Fenton. This time the venue is the British Museum in London,
where Professor Lance Pickering has been found stabbed to
death…in a toilet. He was there to give a talk about
his book on the true story behind King Arthur and to promote
the museum’s latest exhibition on the same subject.
Soon there is another murder, sending the Wilson and Fenton
off to discover who is behind the killings before there are
even more…
I confess to being somewhat underwhelmed with
the first in the series, Murder at the Fitzwilliam (also reviewed
on this site). The author has written nearly a hundred books
and scripts, many of them fast paced YA thrillers, so I had
hoped for something a bit pacier and less romantic. This second
entry is a real page turner, with the sleuths rushing around
London and its environs trying to find the murderer and the
possible motive before striking again. There are quite a few
suspects, plenty of red herrings, a rival for solving the
case in the person of Superintendent Armstrong, and a good,
teasing plot.
The pair is a couple now, so romance takes
a back seat, and I can promise readers a book filled with
detection (and some action). There are a few errors and modernisms,
which brought me slightly out of the story, but nothing too
major. I was also too busy being swept along by the tale and
trying to work it all out for myself. If book three is anything
like this, I am already looking forward to it. Highly readable
and recommended for anybody who likes a good yarn set in foggy
late Victorian London.
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