Lead Review
- Book: Death by Windmill
- Location: Netherlands
- Author: Jennifer S Alderson
This is no. 3 in the Travel Can Be Murder series. Previous hotspots for death have been Budapest and Paris.
We once again meet Lana Hansen, who this time is escorting a tour group of women only, a trip to coincide with Mother’s Day. They are travelling from Seattle to Schiphol. The first surprise for our plucky tour guide is that Dotty, the owner of Wanderlust Tours, for whom Lana works, is coming along for the ride. Second, Dotty – who loves to have everyone co-exist in harmony – has invited Lana’s mother Gillian to accompany them, unbeknown to Lana. However Lana and Gillian haven’t been in contact for several years, as Gillian was extremely unsupportive when Lana was researching a large corporation and got fired for doing so. Lana consequently had to give up her career as an investigative journalist and left under a very large cloud. You just know, though, that Lana was in the right!
Further complications come in the form of someone on the tour with whom Gillian, in particular, has history.
Lana spends her time dealing with the dynamics and scrapes of this disparate group and soothing ruffled feathers.
This series is particularly good for #literarywanderlust. This time Amsterdam and environs are at the heart. A trip to the Bag and Purse Museum sounds intriguing but due to Covid19 its future at the moment looks very uncertain (I would certainly have put this on the ‘must visit’ list – let’s keep fingers crossed it finds a way to re-open). On to Giethoorn, the wonderful village of thatched cottages, otherwise called the Venice of the North and then Keukenhof. A couple of restaurants make an appearance and sites in Amsterdam itself are enough to inspire you to get your travel plans in place (for when we can travel again).
A nicely put together series.
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