Mostly Murders

Book 1 in the Fiona Figg Mysteries series.

Fiona Figg has a photographic memory. As a child, she devoured Sherlock Holmes stories and loved acting. Many years later, during World War 1, these skills come in handy as Fiona volunteers to replace an injured agent for an undercover mission for the War Office, giving her a much-needed chance to escape London and the stifling memories of her husband of four years, who divorced her when she discovered he was cheating on her with his secretary.

Fiona is sent to Ravenswick Abbey where she is meant to spy on the South African war correspondent, Fredrick Fredricks. A task that is made a lot more difficult for Fiona as her cover story necessitates her disguising herself as a male doctor. Luckily her acting experience helps, but keeping her wits about her, and her fake moustache securely in place, becomes even more challenging as murder occurs during her mission at Ravenswick.

A fun, cozy mystery with lots of comedic complications, but with a darker side as well. Fiona volunteers at a hospital, and the horrors of war make an appearance in the book between the comedic complications of Fiona’s undercover mission.

Unlike many other cozy mysteries, Revenge at Ravenswick doesn’t wrap up everything neatly by the end of the book. The case at Ravenswick is solved, but it is a part of a bigger story arc which continues throughout the series.

Cozy mystery – Historical fiction