Review of ‘Murder At Trafalgar Square’ - Michelle Salter

A murdered suffragette. A missing politician. A stolen artwork.

London, 1910

Coral Fairbanks is a contradiction. As well as a suffragette, she's a bit-part actress and nude model, earning her the disapproval of her fellow suffragettes.

Guy Flynn is an artist. He’s also a detective inspector at Scotland Yard, who doesn’t always see eye to eye with fellow officers in the Metropolitan Police.

When Home Secretary Winston Churchill orders the police to terrorise the suffragettes during an afternoon of violence that becomes known as Black Friday, the battlelines are drawn – and Coral Fairbanks and Guy Flynn are on different sides.

But when a young suffragette is found murdered in the National Portrait Gallery and one of their paintings is stolen – Fairbanks and Flynn must put their differences aside and combine their knowledge to track down the killer.

Introducing an iconic detective duo in Fairbanks and Flynn, this is an exciting and gripping historical mystery, which will delight fans of Agatha Christie, Benedict Brown and T. E. Kinsey

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Michelle Salter’s Iris Woodmore series takes place in the shadow of the suffragette fight, so when I saw that her new series 'Fairbanks and Flynn' was focused on that fight, I had high hopes for it.

I wasn’t disappointed.

This is a really strong opening book to that new series. It usually takes me a couple of books to really get to know the characters, but with Fairbanks and Flynn, they already feel like old friends. I also love that the full range of the women’s suffrage movement is represented here: rich, poor, high-class, working class and the whole range of views on the use of violence. That Cora is in her mid-30s delights me because as I get older myself, I have a greater appreciation for a more mature heroine, even when their life experiences are so vastly different to my own. I also loved the potential for a second-chance romance after the loss of a partner.

The plot itself centres around a shocking murder - made more so for me because the victim was not who I was expecting it to be, nor was the killer someone I had suspected from the start.

This is a thoroughly satisfying story - absolutely true to its genre, but as with all Salter’s books, there is a depth to the backstories of both characters and plots that adds an extra level of enjoyment to them.

I eagerly await the remainder of the series!

Michelle Salter writes historical cosy crime set in Hampshire, where she lives, and inspired by real-life events in 1920s Britain. Her Iris Woodmore series draws on an interest in the aftermath of the Great War and the suffragette movement.

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