Sebastian is so good at writing period romances, at least as far as I can tell with the two books I’ve read. Again, these glimpses are very subtle, but they absolutely work. There are other times where Sebastian lets slip in the peculiarities of postwar England and of England before either World Wars took place. It is subtle in a way that you know the characters experiencing trauma just want comfort. The traumas of the War played an important part in this mystery, but they weren’t presented in a very dramatic way. It wasn’t overly emphatic that it was postwar England, but it was also not non-existent. I liked the way Sebastian wrote the time period. I really don’t have anything negative to say about this book, so I will say what I loved most about it. I loved that the main characters get to be happy – the world needs more happy endings. It seems that the struggles and troubles lie mostly with background and supporting characters, and I am fine with this. This is my second book by Cat Sebastian, and I am still loving the way that her stories are upbeat and positive, with definitive happy endings for the protagonists. Both doctor and spy want nothing more than peace, and as they are thrown together into this mystery, they find that peace might be possible. The doctor wants to find out what happened, all the while trying to forget his traumatic memories of World War II. The spy must find out what happened in order to keep everything low-key. Hither, Page brings together a spy and a country doctor, both set on discovering who has murdered the village’s nosy charwoman.
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