A Darker God - Laetitia Talbot, Bk 3 Author:Barbara Cleverly Post–World War I politics and ancient mysteries mix well together in this third in Cleverly’s series starring Laetitia “Letty” Talbot It’s 1928, and British archaeologist and amateur sleuth Letty has recently returned to Athens from a dig in Crete when her friend, mentor, and former lover Andrew Merriman is murdered... more », his stabbed body found during a rehearsal of Agamennon, which he translated from Aeschylus. The next day his sharp-tongued wife, Maud, who knew of her husband’s dalliances, also dies, presumably pushed from her home’s second-floor window, casting suspicion on actress Thetis Templeton, Maud’s visiting cousin and Andrew’s current lover.
DCI Percy Montacute from Scotland Yard, an amateur actor newly posted to Athens, is present when Andrew’s body is discovered and heads the investigation, aided by Letty. In addition to bringing deductive reasoning to the case, Letty becomes an endangered player in a long-planned plot for revenge by a victim of the 1923 Greece and Turkey population exchange. A complex, well-plotted historical mystery enlivened by its feisty and more-than-modern protagonist.« less