Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T A Willberg is the first in a new mystery novel series. The second book has been published and Willberg is working on the third. This is definitely a new and different style of mystery novel. This novel feels more fantastical. We are introduced to Marion Lane, a young woman who has grown up with her grandmother, after mother committed suicide. Her grandmother is an unhappy person, who has resented having to look after her granddaughter and now is anxious to marry her off.
Marion hopes there is more to life and goes out to get a job and be self sufficient. When she applies to a dark cobweb filled bookstore for a job she is whisked downstairs underground to find a world of secret tunnels that run under the streets of 1950s London. She is introduced to a world of crime fighting done after dark to solve crimes that have stumped Scotland Yard. She joins the apprentices who are learning all the tricks, gadgets and cunning of good detectives.
When one of their fellow employees is murdered, the investigators must look at themselves to find the murderer. Now Marion must figure out who she can trust from this mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries. Marion and her friends will use what they have learned to save their colleague accused of the murder as they discover secrets dating back to England's involvement in World War Two.
An entertaining plot, though a little farfetched, if the reader suspends the need for reality this was a fun read. It will be interesting to see where Marion and the Investigators and Inquirers go next.
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