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“It’s 1938, the eve of war, and I think there are parallels with where we are today. You have Neville Chamberlain going to Munich and other places, trying to appease Hitler. Memories of World War I were still too stark and much of the country was thinking, ‘We can’t face another war’…The plot revolves around a detective writer Hubert Newman, who dies suddenly. That’s the backstory, the intriguing piece of this book. Was it a natural death? Or was there something dodgy about it? Newman was a cozy detective novelist who is less cozy than he seems.” Read more...
