Lady Evelyn’s inner voice is going to make her a one of a kind detective.

What works for me ?

In this particular book the unexpected gifts (beyond the bright skies of crete) have to do with grief, loss and what next - but what sets this book apart is the way loss is turned all about like a rubic’s cube - by the time you put the book down you’ll know a few lessons it can take a lifetime to learn - that grief and loss are everywhere - behind the brightest smiles, the biggest freedoms, the longest memories and more.

-it’s not just our protagonist’s or our vitctim’s experience with grief or loss that we encounter - we click and clack our way rubic’s-cube-like through everyone’s losses and griefs before we’re done reading, but it’s so well done we don’t even get distracted from the whodunnit while we’re at it!

Ever heard someone offer the feel-better self help phrase: “there’s always someone worse off than you ?” Get ready to check ✔️ a bunch of those someones off your list:

A child orphaned young ✔️

A parent who loses a child, and another ✔️

A husband who loses his wife ✔️

A son who loses his brothers then his parents then his best friend ✔️

A man who loses his co-workers ✔️

A woman who loses her lover ✔️

A woman who loses her mind ✔️

A woman who loses her job ✔️

A chief inspector who loses his good night’s sleep ✔️

A woman who begins to lose her heart ✔️

what didn’t work for me? T Y P O S