It had been on the radio that there would be a solar eclipse that day, but the heat was so miserable no one much cared. The reason I prefer it is because I love titles that connect beyond their own story, and A Three Dog Problem connects to a Sherlock Holmes story, “The Red-Headed League,” in which Homes notes, “It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.

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Whilst he was prepared for the water to be cold, he wasn't prepared, at all, for finding the blood-soaked body of Cynthia Harris in the pool area. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She is the award-winning author of several books for children and teaches and podcasts about writing. I've had my complaints about other Howard books I've read, but I always finished them without having to skim.

Once more, while the BadGuys are just a tad incompetent ( If Niema is such an unusual name, wouldn’t they have just google’d it? In common with the first book it is the Queen’s Assistant Private Secretary, Rozie Oshodi, who goes out and asks questions and discreetly reports back.

Niema is to get herself invited to his Villa, where she will meet up with John and she will plant a bugging device, and he will access and steal all information concerning the explosive. And, I have to retract or clarify part of my statement made in the beginning of the review, as I indicated that this book and this series was pure pleasure reading for me and not one of imparting important messages. Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in this hugely entertaining follow-up to the bestseller The Windsor Knot, in which Her Majesty must determine how a missing painting is connected to the shocking death of a staff member inside Buckingham Palace.

Another player on their team is retired Detective Billy MacLachlan, who is privy to much of the gossip that swirls around the palace through his connections to other retired Royal personnel. The ending was also nice, although I would have liked a bit more because I wanted to know what exactly happened with the main characters and everyone else. There was plenty of sexual tension between Niema and John, our hero and heroine, throughout the story and what happened between the two of them in Ronsard's office was unique. Prior to Portsmouth, Her Majesty had last seen the painting decades ago, hanging outside her bedroom door, and she has no idea how or when it left her possession. The Queen’s Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft; The Keeper of the Privy Purse, Sir James Ellington; and Master of the Household, Mike Green.From the Royal operations and Royal offices of the Palace to the Queen’s daily schedules to the Baroque art of Artemisia Geniteschi, an Italian 17th century painter. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This entertaining novel, written with wit and brio, will appeal to royalists and murder mystery lovers alike. She continues to feel mishandled and abused but, of course, finds her way to forgiving him into more sex.

The second book in this series, once again, features Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II secretly solving crimes with the assistance of her Assistant Private Secretary Rozie Oshodi.Her current Assistant Private Secretary Rozie Oshodi is again her eyes and ears around the palace and elsewhere to help her seek out the culprits. Whilst your initial impressions of a monarch might not include solving crimes; this reigning monarch has a wonderful array of sleuthing abilities!