***100 Days of Summer Reading 2023***
Prompt: Book featuring a character who is an archeologist, anthropologist, paleontologist, wildlife or marine biologist. Or who generally works in a similar field.
12 sided dice roll: 6
Dr. Nell Ward is an ecologist and her alter ego is Lady Eleanor, living at Finchmere, her family's estate. When her best friend is getting married and needs a venue, she offers Finchmere. And then everything goes wrong. First the groom makes a skeezy pass at Nell (and she stabs him with a fork! Go,Nell!). Then this same groom falls or is pushed from an upper level and is dead as a doornail on the wedding night. He is only the first….
Nell puts all her ecologist observational skills to work with James, her detective inspector boyfriend, and Rav, her handsome co-worker, to figure out who the murderer(s) is/are. In the meanwhile, Nell must figure out which of the men she is working with is most important to her. James, being a white dude with a position of authority, assumes he will be her choice. Rav, unsure whether his traditional Hindu parents will accept a white aristocrat as his partner, waffles a lot. By book's end, I had no doubt that Nell had chosen correctly, but you'll have to read for yourself to find out who is the lucky guy. Mind you, I was disappointed that she had to survive a life threatening injury to figure out which one to choose.
Like the first book, I found the title annoying. At least a pair of falcons make a cameo appearance here, but a better title might have been A Parliament of Owls, as a nesting pair of Barn Owls feature prominently in the solution of the groom’s murder.
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