The Bees Kiss, Barbara Cleverly
The Bees Kiss, Barbara Cleverly
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The Bee's Kiss

Author: Barbara Cleverly

Narrator: Terry Wale

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 02/01/2017

Synopsis

1926: Joe Sandilands is back from India enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. But post-war gaiety soon wears off when Scotland Yard ask Joe to conduct a swift enquiry. Dame Beatrice Joliffe, a much-respected member of the British establishment, has been bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. It seems that death dogged the footsteps of Dame Beatrice and Joe finds himself investigating the apparent suicides of three young women who had been close to her. When his superiors unexpectedly tell him to close the case and surrender the file, Joe is forced to battle on alone against pressure from unseen government forces, through to a shattering solution.

About Barbara Cleverly

Barbara Cleverly is a former teacher and a graduate of Durham University who now lives in Cambridge. Her debut, The Last Kashmiri Rose, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2002.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on February 19, 2022

The Bee's Kiss by Barbara Cleverly is the 5th book in her historical mystery series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Joe Sandilands. The series is set after WWI. The first four books found Sandiland assigned as a special investigator in India. In this fifth novel, Joe is back in London, now back wi......more

Goodreads review by Cherie on July 22, 2019

I really liked this Joe Sandilands story. I wanted to see him on his home turf after reading the first book and I was not disappointed. I thought I had the murder figured out a couple of times, but I was wrong! I really need to find out who Maisie is now! Back for book #2 now.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on May 21, 2010

The Bee’s Kiss is the fifth in a series of mystery novels set in England or in British-ruled Central Asia after World War I and featuring a likeable (and eligible) Scotland Yard detective named Joe Sandilands. The series began with The Last Kashmiri Rose and includes other exotic-sounding titles suc......more

Goodreads review by Mary Ellen on February 24, 2010

I like Joe Sandilands and Cleverly is great at creating the time and place (interesting to get a sense of "Red Scare" on the other side of the Atlantic, with the general strike). But in the end, several aspects of the plot made little sense to me, principally the "plot" which led to the victim's dea......more

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