2023/015: Stargazy Pie — Victoria Goddard

2023/015: Stargazy Pie — Victoria Goddard

Now that you’re finally back to scandalize the good gentry, life should be much more interesting. Fire, mermaids, herring pies, gossip, and half the town jammed with fools debating the folly of the rest, and all of them talking about you. I’m delighted you’re back.

Cosy crime novel, the first in the Greenwing and Dart series, set in Victoria Goddard's 'Nine Worlds' universe. From other novels (specifically The Return of Fitzroy Angursell and At the Feet of the Sun) I know more about some of the characters than Goddard tells us in this first installment: I wonder if she had their later stories in mind when writing this?

It's a frothy, cheerful novel, despite some fairly dark undertones.( Read more... )