jjares reviewed Family Plot: Another John Pickett Mystery (John Pickett Mysteries) on + 3539 more book reviews
Perfect; this is the ideal story. A lot is going on with John Pickett and Lady Fieldhurst, who meet in Scotland. When Lady Fieldhurst and her three young cousins find a body on the beach, they soon find that the woman washed ashore was the woman lost to the Kirkebride family fifteen years earlier. When old Mr. Kirkebride holds a party and announces he will change his will to give it all to Elsbeth, the newly found daughter, he is killed.
Another wrinkle in this story is that Lady Fieldhurst did not use her name; she claimed to be Mrs. Pickett. She claimed the young men to be her nephews, also named Pickett. This will have ramifications when Mr. Pickett learns that Scotland has a very loose interpretation of marriage; simply referring to oneself as a married person is sufficient.
As with all of Sheri Cobb South's stories, they should be read in order because they build on each other. I could not set this book aside until I'd read it all.
John Pickett -- Total of 10
0.5. Pickpocket's Apprentice (2015)
1. In Milady's Chamber (2006)
2. A Dead Bore (2008)
** 3. Family Plot (2014)
4. Dinner Most Deadly (2015)
Another wrinkle in this story is that Lady Fieldhurst did not use her name; she claimed to be Mrs. Pickett. She claimed the young men to be her nephews, also named Pickett. This will have ramifications when Mr. Pickett learns that Scotland has a very loose interpretation of marriage; simply referring to oneself as a married person is sufficient.
As with all of Sheri Cobb South's stories, they should be read in order because they build on each other. I could not set this book aside until I'd read it all.
John Pickett -- Total of 10
0.5. Pickpocket's Apprentice (2015)
1. In Milady's Chamber (2006)
2. A Dead Bore (2008)
** 3. Family Plot (2014)
4. Dinner Most Deadly (2015)
