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Historical cozy crime set in 1935 LONDON
25th October 2024
D Is For Death by Harriet F Townson, historical cozy crime set in 1935 LONDON.
If you love cozying up at this time of year with a good read, by the fire with a nice warm drink, then D is For Death by Harriet F Townson will fit the bill. The story is set in 1935 and it is full of Autumnal colour: “The leaves on the rowan trees lining the white stucco terraces were like coral and yellow flames on black branches against a silver-white sky…” Throughout the novel there is a real warmth of description that envelops the unfolding story.
Given the the backdrop of Autumn, with its wonderful fiery foliage, it is interesting that the publishers have chosen the mint green cover. This choice of colour is in fact inspired because it is the “complimentary colour” of orange and brown. Complimentary colours are pairs of colours that are opposite each other on the “Colour Wheel” and create a strong contrast when placed next to each other and never clash!
1935: Twenty year old Dora Wildwood does not want to get married to Charles Silk-Butters (what a name for a fiancé), and in the dead of night, as the novel opens, she is on the train leaving Somerset and heading for London and to the safety of her Godmother’s home. Lady Dreda Uglow (!) has sent her maid, with strict security instructions to meet her at the station but within minutes Dora is already missing, swept up in the throng of people, a pursuer just a hair’s breadth behind her, as she finds herself running through the garden squares of Bayswater and beyond…
She then happens to bowl up to the London Library, only to get herself involved in a murder investigation.
This is a wonderfully warm and evocative debut novel, with a good sense of time and place, ensuring a velvet-textured escape to 1930s London.
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