Another happy accident: a second series by Barbara Cleverly. This one is set in the late 1920s, and features not a Scotland Yard inspector like Joe Sandilands, but a young archaeologist named Laetitia Talbot. Again the period setting is spot-on, and the web of history and theology underpinning the story is well-framed and fascinating. And the mystery as to who is good or bad, who can be trusted, is familiar from the Sandilands series. I love history and historical fiction, and several of my favorite mystery series fit this mold. I'm looking forward to many happy hours of reading pleasure thanks to Barbara Cleverly! Perfectly fine for a cold and dreary afternoon. It's been four years since I read tomb of Zeus, and I don't remember it, so the fact that this story happened first didn't throw me at all. I had just decided that instead of a mystery i had landed in a pleasant old fashioned Gothic romance when all of a sudden there were smugglers, a goddess cult, and a plot to kill Hitler. That garbled the ending a bit, but I really like the William Gunning character.
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Not sure if I'll read the other books in this series, but I might.
—The_Light_Chaos_Chao
I can't get on with this series but love her Sandilands books.
—prateek
Love the characters & dialog in Cleverly's novels.
—Haru
There are some interesting bits after page 300.
—Elena2448
