Book review: The Red Queen by Martha Grimes
The Red Queen by Martha Grimes only arrived in my NetGalley review folder Friday morning and I allowed it to leap-frog over EVERYTHING else and read it that night in a sitting. Martha Grimes’s Richard Jury / Melrose Plant series used to be my ultimate comfort read. Most of which I read pre-2014 before I started reviewing books on this site.
I used to say that if I could live in ONE book world it would be Melrose Plant’s Long Piddleton with the aristocrats who spend the day at the pub when when they’re not helping Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury solve cases. I’ve always found it kinda fascinating that, though the series is quintessentially English (with each book named after a pub and many references English life), Grimes is American.
