November Rain
Paradise Café #2
by Maureen Jennings
ISBN: 9781770866041
Format: Trade Paperback w/ Flaps
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Subjects:
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FIC022040 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
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FIC022090 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
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FIC022060 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical
Price: $24.95
Publication Date: November 28, 2020
Synopsis:
Charlotte’s boss at T. Gilmore and Associates takes off on a mysterious trip to Europe, leaving Charlotte in charge of the detective agency. Mrs. Jessop hires the newly promoted Private Investigator to inquire into the untimely death of her son, a veteran injured in the Great War. The police ruled it a suicide, but Mrs. Jessop doesn’t agree and wants Charlotte to find out what really happened.
Then Charlotte is hired to infiltrate a small women’s wear manufacturer to uncover communist agitators. When the factory supervisor is murdered on the job just as Charlotte starts to look into it, she gets seconded to the police to help find out what happened.
The November clouds darken and Charlotte is left to struggle to solve two mysteries at the same time — until they intersect. Add an aging grandfather, an absent boyfriend, and a mad scheme to mount a controversial play at the Paradise Café and Charlotte has her hands full.
Reviews
“This is the second book in the Paradise Café series featuring private investigator Charlotte Frayne and it’s even better than the first. Jennings has made the jump from Victorian Toronto to the Depression era with ease and, once again, proves that Canadian history is far from dull.”
— Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
“Jennings is nothing if not a careful and intelligent writer, so I always know connections made by the characters have a meaning that will advance the plot. She’s also that wonderful and increasingly rare thing, concise. She doesn’t skimp her words but she doesn’t waste them either. Her sensitive and thoughtful explication and observation of character in her books adds to their depth and makes them linger in the memory long after you’ve finished reading.”
— Aunt Agatha’s
“A great crime mystery that I highly recommend.”
— Steven R. McEvoy, Books and More