A Very Domestic War
(2026)(The fifth book in the Esther and the Professor Mystery series)
A novel by Tia Brown
It’s summer 1942, and the Americans have come into the War even though they’ haven't arriveded in the Dorset town of Poole yet. The Professor’s father, Sir Nicholas Lomax has come over from Washington where he’s something important in the British Embassy, and wants to meet his assistant, Mrs Esther Graham and her parents and children. Major Christopher Carmichael and his fiancee, Miss Jennifer Morgan are escorting him so surely nothing could happen, could it?
Well, nothing apart from rescuing a young man from some thugs after he’s been talking to ladies whose virtue is a little less than spotless and whose affections are generously shared for an equally generous fee. Then there’s a wedding at short notice, a girl trying to kill herself, a new police officer to deal with and an apparently unavoidable tragedy.
This time, it’s a Very Domestic War but it still has to be fought, and Esther and the Professor are all the more vital when it comes to fighting it because they’re not part of the Armed Forces.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Well, nothing apart from rescuing a young man from some thugs after he’s been talking to ladies whose virtue is a little less than spotless and whose affections are generously shared for an equally generous fee. Then there’s a wedding at short notice, a girl trying to kill herself, a new police officer to deal with and an apparently unavoidable tragedy.
This time, it’s a Very Domestic War but it still has to be fought, and Esther and the Professor are all the more vital when it comes to fighting it because they’re not part of the Armed Forces.
Genre: Cozy Mystery