Pulling on a kind of fascination, the English author Sophia Bennett makes Queen Elizabeth II a most unexpected protagonist for her police plots with an aftertaste of the sobriety of the fabrics of Agatha Christie brought to the XNUMXst century. A mixture between the classic and the current revolving around Isabel II that practically creates its own genre of monarchical suspense.
The thing is that prior to the death of Elizabeth II and even afterward, such a combination had a pull beyond the British Isles, reaching a multitude of readers waiting for those doses of verisimilitude that end up moving exponentially towards a fiction that locates the former monarch. English in a heroine position that exalts the myth. Because one never knows where reality ends and fiction begins in spaces as remote and inaccessible as the great palaces.
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The Windsor knot
This is the beginning of the Her Majesty, the Investigating Queen series. As such, considering the particularities of a plot that revolves around Isabel II, the thing must have surprised locals and strangers. But the idea ended up taking hold and many were those who got on the queen's car in search of the criminal on duty.
It's early spring 2016 at Windsor Castle, where Elizabeth II is finalizing the preparations for her XNUMXth birthday celebrations over a morning cup of tea. But the festive atmosphere is suddenly cut short when one of her guests is found dead in one of the residence's bedrooms.
Everything seems to indicate that the young Russian pianist has hanged himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect that there is a cat locked up. The queen leaves the investigation in the hands of the professionals, until the investigations point towards her faithful servants and she decides to take action on the matter.
A case of three dogs
Entered into the matter in the narrative scenery of the criminal, every investigator or even hero finds new nemeses. Because evil magnetizes with that kind of challenge for each and every one of the noir characters... In this entertaining sequel to The Windsor Knot, Queen Elizabeth II must discover the relationship between a missing painting and the terrifying death of a member of the her staff.
At Buckingham Palace, autumn 2016 heralds uncertain political times. The queen must deal with the fallout from the Brexit referendum, a new prime minister and a tumultuous US election, but all of that turns out to be the least of her worries when the palace's ruler is found dead by the pool. Although the "triumvirate" of the house claims that she has everything under control, her Majesty knows that there are dark forces at work. After all, sometimes it takes a queen's eye to see connections that escape ordinary mortals.
A crime among royalty
No rest possible for the researcher. Either a simple policeman or the queen herself. A murder in the surroundings of the Sandringham mansion, in Norfolk County, alters Elizabeth II's Christmas vacation.
A shocking discovery disrupts Elizabeth II's vacation plans. A human hand and a bag full of drugs have washed up on a beach near her land in Sandringham hers. With the help of her assistant private secretary, Rozie Oshodi, Elizabeth II tries to find out who is hiding from her after the death of her neighbor and friend Edward St. Cyr. Someone in sleepy Norfolk seems to have a secret worth killing for, and the queen is determined to find out who and what she is, even if it means uncovering a killer in her inner circle.
