This is a delightful and highly entertaining book but it’s also the more complex in this series.
I love how the author wrote a more mature Eleanor. She’s always carefree and unorthodox in her relationship with the personnel but we also get to know her better and to learn something about her past.
This is a story about a holiday at the seaside but it’s also a complex mystery, full of red herrings and twists, that kept me guessing and the solution surprised me.
The author did an excellent job in using some of the Golden Age tropes like an environment with a restricted number of suspects but they were also able to balance the ligh humour with the more poignant aspects.
Clifford and Gladstone are great characters as usual but I think that all the characters are well written and most of them likable.
The mystery is solid and the investigation was an excellent puzzle that had to identify not only the culprit but also what was behind stories from Eleanor’s past.
I had a lot of fun and I think this is the best story in the series so far. A bit darker than the previous books but as enjoyable and fun as the others.
I can’t wait to read the next installment, this one Is highly recommended.
Many thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine