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Book Review: The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict

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BOOK REVIEW:

The Queens of Crime

by Marie Benedict


I love the set up where the famous authors, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy group together to form a club and they call themselves the Queens of Crime and set out to solve a real life murder mystery in the 1930s. Mystery in a historical setting? Count me in!


The mystery targets how a young English woman vanishes and is ultimately found strangled in a French park. The fascinating twisty tale is equal to the sharp minds of the five top female mystery writers. Pages turn as the fate of May Davies, a young nurse unravels on the hunt for the killer.


The delight of the book is of course the real life research done and folded in brining these five tremendous women writers to life.


A must read for mystery and historical lovers both.


Thanks to @netgalley and @stmartinspress for an advance reading copy.

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