Mrs. Jeffries Speaks Her Mind

I love these books. The mysteries are great, but I think after 20+ books, I really enjoy reading about what is happening to the characters. There is one point in the book where the Inspector is talking about watching a young lad grow into manhood, walking a young lady down the aisle, and how they ha......more

Olive Kettering might have been paranoid, but she's dead, so someone was after her. While the case starts the way most of Brightwell's do, a well-to-do member of society gets killed and Inspector Witherspoon gets called in. While he does the official inquiry, Mrs. Jeffries and crew start in as well.......more

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"Mrs Jeffries speaks her mind" (MJ27?) by Emily Brightwell. The title seems to come from the final scene where she represents everyone, how proud they are to aid the cause of justice, ready to face danger there, as everywhere. Despite the large cast already, I'm hooked, plan to find earlier in the s......more

Olive Kettering was not a very nice person and had very few friends, so no one is particularly surprised when she is murdered during a nasty storm. It is up to Inspector Gerald Witherspoon and Constable Barnes to find her killer and they have plenty of suspects to deal with. But Witherspoon has a lo......more