Evelyne Redfern is working in a munitions factory in war time London when she is pulled off the line and sent to work in the cabinet war room of Winston Churchill by a friend of her father. There is concern that top secret information is leaking out and she has been tasked to look for how and who is passing it along to the Nazis. She is the first to come across a body, one of the other typists in the war room. This sets things in motion for a well written, exciting mystery, the first in a new series, by Julia Kelly, A Traitor in Whitehall (an Evelyne Redfern Mystery). Excellent descriptions of war torn London, working underground, rationing ... kept me up late! :-)

Here's what was an unusual PI (at least for this reader) ... a mother of a three month old baby girl! Formula for Murder looks to be the third in the Maternal Instincts Mystery series by Diana Orgain, so we're jumping into an already developing character here, and after asking someone who had actually been a mother it made more sense to me. :-) Now, Christmas is coming ... the first with the new baby so Kate has a lot on her mind. She and her daughter are in a serious hit and run accident. She can recognize the driver should she see him again, and got a glance at the license plates. They belong to a car belonging to the French Consulate and so have diplomatic immunity. However, as this reaches a dead end, they see two local reporters leaving the building and later, one ends up dead. That starts the investigation for real, then, along with determining what story she was working on the young man involved in the hit and run is found dead. Is there some sort of cover up going on? Not a bad read. This was in the box of books sent from Wandering Reader.

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