Murder at the Palace

by

Kindle edition, 319 pages

english language

Published March 13, 2025

ISBN:
978-1-4091-9982-3
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ASIN:
B0CW13NLKJ
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It has been a night of festivities at Hampton Court Palace, with a soirée in the Great Hall. But when one of the ladies in residence doesn't answer her maid's call in the morning, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate.

What Mrs Bramble finds shocks the whole Miss Philomena Franklin slumped over her bureau with a knife in her back.

With the police seemingly determined to bark up the wrong tree, Mrs Bramble decides to take up her own investigation with the help of Miss Franklin's maid. After all, as servants, they know just how many dangerous secrets and secret squabbles the seemingly genteel residents of the palace apartments harbour.

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reviewed Murder at the Palace by N.R. Daws

I wonder what Bramble did before she became a housekeeper

Mrs Lydia Bramble, housekeeper in charge, is unchuffed when a lady turns up not only dead but seemingly murdered, and takes it upon herself to find the murderer.

I didn’t care for this. The characters are dull, and so is the mystery. Bramble is insufferable, and only shines by going up against the stupidest oaf of a copper to ever exist.

The author obviously needed to prove just how much time they spent pouring over Hampton Court Palace maps. And holy HECK do I wish an editor had demanded mentions of Bramble’s time as an army nurse be capped to no more than 10.

Subjects

  • mystery