Regular followers will know of my love for an engrossing cosy mystery. I always enjoy the books in Vicki Delaney’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series and the latest, The Sign of Four Spirits, did not disappoint.
Gemma Doyle is the co-owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. As a pragmatic woman, she wants nothing to do with a psychic fair that arrives in her small town. Somehow, she allows herself to be persuaded by friends to attend a séance.
When she arrives there, Gemma is told that, since she’s a non-believer, she’s not welcome and is told to leave. Of course, this made Gemma more curious about what was happening inside the room, so she listens through the door. After she hears a cry for help and a scream, Gemma bursts in to find a person dead at the table.
This arouses her detecting instincts and she begins to hunt for the murderer. All the windows are locked and Gemma was at the only door, so who in the room is the killer?
This is a classic locked room mystery and Gemma solves it in her own sensible and logical way. Long may Gemma continue to solve mysteries in her adopted home of West London.
Four stars from me. Read more about The Sign of Four Spirits on Goodreads.
Thanks to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for this advance copy in return for an honest review.