Written by Elly Griffiths, this is a delightful entertaining mystery story with a elderly gentleman as a detective and his young friends. The Last Word brings us back to the team of Edwin an eighty year old man who is looking for excitement and things that give his life meaning, Benedict, a former monk who has given up his life of religion to be in relationship with Natlaka, a young woman who is a Ukrainian refugee in England. Edwin and Natlaka run the amateur detective agency and they get a good juicy murder case. Benedict runs the local coffee cafe.
When authors start dying, they question becomes are deaths are from natural causes or murder. This book takes our characters through a series of experiences as they try to find connections between the authors and their deaths. Where have their lives overlapped and who might know all the victims.
The plot is very current and refers to both Covid and the Ukraine war. Natlaka has brought her mother out of Ukraine but her brother has gone back to fight so they are always worrying about him. So that adds a more complicated plot. Also it distracts and teases the reader as they try to discover the killer.
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