Review: Blue Murder

Blue Murder by Emma Jameson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Two people are murdered at a Halloween party in fashionable Chelsea - both by an axe to the head. Scotland Yard sends in Chief Superintendent Anthony Hetheridge, AKA Lord Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave. Anthony is sixty years old, fabulously wealthy, and the cop they wheel in when anyone involved is wealthy and/or titled. His trusty side kicks are Detective Sergeant Kate Wakefield and Detective Sergeant Deepal “Paul” Bhar (can I just say that I really hate that people call him Paul Deepal isn't a hard word to pronounce FFS). Despite being half his age and well below his social and economic status, Kate and Anthony have a budding romance.

To add to the mix, the party took place in the mansion next door to Sir Duncan Godington, an acquitted suspect in the macabre murder of his father, brother, and devoted butler, something that hurts both Anthony and 'Paul' quite badly.

Deepal is a sharp dresser who lives with his devoted mother. Kate looks after her brother who has an intellectual disability and her nephew because her sister is in a mental health facility. They encounter sexism and racism from both other cops and people they interview.

This was okay, I hope (but doubt) that Sir Duncan is going to be a recurring theme as I find him a bit too cartoon villain (twirling moustache-type).

Anyway, I the murderer's identity was quite obvious, maybe I've read something quite similar before? So the fact that it took them half a book to find their identity was a bit tiresome.


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