by SJ Bennett
I read the previous book by this author, The Windsor Knot, and found it quite entertaining. Like the Windsor Knot this book involves Queen Elizabeth II discreetly employing some sleuthing techniques to find out if the death of a staff member was murder or an accident, how a painting she was fond of ended up in a Maritime Museum and who is sending poison pen notes to various employees of the Queen.
The book features the Queen and her Personal Assistant Rozie plus a number of additional characters. As the book moves on we find that the woman who was murdered was a cleaner who was disliked by almost everyone. On further investigation it is determined that she was acutally hired as an art restorer, curator, but got demoted. The dead woman had unearthed some valuable works by a woman artist. Later the paintings were determined to be copies. It appears the originals were stolen and replaced with copies. The investigation also turns up additional corruption with items owned or given to the Queen being sold off.
The book was a bit plodding, I didn't find it as engaging as the first one.
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