Something Blue by Emma JamesonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The third in the series featuring Anthony Hetheridge, chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard and ninth baron of Wellegrave, and his fiancée Detective Sergeant Kate Wakefield as well as Detective Sergeant Deepal ('Paul') Bhar.
Its three weeks before Tony and Kate get married, then Michael Martin Hughes, disgraced CEO of Peerless Petrol Co which caused an ecological disaster, is found murdered (strychnine poisoning) at the exclusive Nonpareil Hotel, which just happens to be the current residence of Lady Isabel Bartlow and her brother, Sir Duncan Godington (Tony's arch-nemesis, he is believed to have murdered his father and brother in cold blood but got away on a technicality).
What with all the eco-warriors who considered Hughes the anti-Christ, his estranged wife and son, his fiancée, and girlfriend, there's no shortage of suspects and all of them were present on the evening as Hughes was hosting a fundraiser for Peerless Petrol.
Meanwhile, the gutter press are digging dirt on Kate and her less than squeaky-clean family, threatening to ruin the wedding.
As I believe I said in my last review, Godington is such a pantomime villain he taints everything. Allegedly so charismatic he can charm people into committing murder on his behalf he has apparently also developed a taste for bathing in his victims' blood whilst in South America.
Also, there are so many illegitimate children flying around (not literally you understand) that it seems that no-one is really the child of their parents (that got away from me a bit but you know what I mean).
This was okay, but I don't think I need to continue reading the series.
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