Death and the Joyful Woman (The Felse Investigations #2)
Ellis Peters
Alfred Armiger had laid his clever, vulgar hands on a beautiful old Tudor house and turned it into The Jolly Barmaid—the latest addition to his chain of super Road-houses. Then someone lays their hands on Armiger: he is found brutally beaten to death. And there is no shortage of people who wanted him dead, as Detective Sergeant Felse soon discovers. After sifting through the suspects and the few shreds of evidence available, he finally makes an arrest. But to Dominic Felse, George’s young son, Kitty Norris represents everything that is admirable in life. His certainty of her innocence in the crime drives him to take an alternative line of action to that of his father: one that forces him, at sixteen, to measure up to some unexpected and dangerous consequences...
Publication Year: 1991
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Ellis Peters's voice is delicate, charming, and just exciting enough in the action sequences, exactly what you want out of a cozy English murder mystery. The only real complaint I have about this otherwise worthy successor to the enjoyable Fallen Into the Pit is that Dom uses the exact same trick to catch the killer as he did in #1, and it all goes pretty much the same way with the climax. I feel a little cheated.
Still, a perfectly enjoyable series, if less fascinating than her better known Cadfael books.
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