Name: The Bee's Kiss

Author: Barbara Cleverly
Year: 2005
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Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction

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ISBNs:
9780786717361
9780385340410
078671736X
0385340419
It's 1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from Ranipur, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet there is a darkness behind all the postwar gaiety. A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong. But the corpse is that of a much respected member of the British establishment, Dame Beatrice Joliffe, one of the founders of the Wrens; so Scotland Yard sends Joe to conduct a swift enquiry. Then, Joliffe's companion, an ex-chorus girl, falls from Waterloo Bridge at twilight, and two of the Dame's clique of eager young Wrens commit suicide. Although these deaths make Joe suspect that Beatrice has been killed by someone close to her, he suddenly finds that the case is closed, and he is asked by his superiors to surrender his files. Against the background of a looming general strike and pressure from unseen governmental presence, Joe struggles on, picking his way through the political panic and rebelling against authority. The fifth title in the Golden Dagger Award-winning series, The Bee's Kiss builds to a shattering solution.
This book is part of the "Joe Sandilands" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"A Spider in the Cup"
First published in 2013
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"Not My Blood"
First published in 2012
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"The Blood Royal"
First published in 2011
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"Strange Images of Death"
First published in 2010
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"The Palace Tiger"
First published in 2004
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"The Damascened Blade"
First published in 2003
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"Ragtime in Simla"
First published in 2002
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"The Last Kashmiri Rose"
First published in 2001
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"Tug of War"
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