Review: No Known Grave by Maureen Jennings

A Mysterious Review of No Known Grave by Maureen Jennings. A Tom Tyler Mystery.

Review summary: There is a lot to like about this historical mystery, from the atmospheric setting of the old manor house and its grounds to the descriptive scenes of wartime Britain. The characters are well drawn, and the puzzles presented are really quite hard to decipher. Overall, a fine entry in this series. (Click here for text of full review.)

Our rating:

No Known Grave
Maureen Jennings
A Tom Tyler Mystery
McClelland & Stewart (October 2014)

Publisher synopsis: It's summer, 1942, and after a tough couple of years, DI Tom Tyler is making a fresh start in Ludlow, Shropshire. On the outskirts of town, St. Anne's Convalescent Hospital, staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns, has been established in an old manor house to help victims of the war to recover. After a horrifying double murder is discovered on the grounds, Tyler must figure out how the crime could have occurred in such a secluded and presumably impenetrable place, where most of the patients are unable to walk or are blind, or both, not to mention deeply traumatized.

To add to the puzzle, Tyler begins almost immediately to receive mysterious letters recounting terrible crimes far away. He realizes that he is not only seeking the murderer, but that the horrors of the war are closing in on this place that was meant to be a refuge.