The first in the series "Her Majesty the Queen Investigates". This is in essence a 'cozy mystery', but one with a very different setting to the 'seaside villa' or 'country town' which is typical! Instead, we are inside and in the inner working and royal residences of Windsor and Buckingham Palace. The queen hosts two events at Winsor - a working group of international security analysts and a 'dine and sleep' house party. The next morning after the guests are gone, one of the musicians entertaining at the house party, a talented Russian pianist, is found in a situation that implies a sex game gone fatal. That would be bad enough, but a few days later, a young expert in Chinese policy dies of an apparent drug overdose. She was at the security conference - or was she?
Her Majesty deploys her assistant private secretary, old friends in the intelligence community and her own keen observation skills. She is sure that MI6, who are chasing after Russian spies, are looking at the wrong enemy and furthermore, they are upsetting her loyal household.
Great narration (with subtle but well done 'character voices') and nicely paced. I downloaded from my library's "Hoopla" app easily and will be getting the next in the series soon.
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