The title of this next Iona Whishaw Lane Winslow Mystery is a clue: It Begins in Betrayal. I know how good these books are so I cleared my schedule (okay, there was snow on the ground and I'd planned things so I did not have to go out) so as to spend the day reading, which is pretty much what I did. Something that happened during the war (four years back) has come back to haunt Flight Lieutenant Darling and he is called back to London to stand trial. If convicted, he will hang. Is he really guilty? Not one to stand by and wait, Lane follows him to see if she can help. Meanwhile, Constable Ames has been put in charge of a murder of an old woman. She's been in the area for forty years, but could there some sort of family connection from the old country?

Tall Reader recently shared a book with me: The Matter of the Deserted Airliner, by Steve Levi. A plane on a routine flight from Seattle has arrive in Anchorage with no crew and no passengers. How could this happen? Then the ransom demand arrives: the kidnappers want gems, lots of them. Vacationing Captain Heinz Noonan is called in to help. I like that this is a 'thinking' mystery, no guns blaring, or wild chases, and I chuckled over the difference between the those who look good on camera (politicians) and those who do the actual work! It looks like a self-published book though, and there are some errors that should have been caught. (What can I say, Mom was an English teacher) ;-)

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