In Farleigh Field
I finished In Farleigh Field, which met my 2017 reading challenge criteria of “a book published in 2017.” Set during World War II, the novel is a whodunit full of mystery and conspiracy when an unknown man falls from the sky with a parachute that doesn’t open, an outdated military outfit, and a cryptic photo with a coded message. Who sent him and for what purpose? The aristocratic cast of characters are secretly sent on separate missions to find out.
The thing I liked most about the book is that throughout the novel you are given bits of information that make you suspect each character’s guilt at least once. You debate if the information given could make them the partner spy of the dead parachuter. It’s been a little while for me to have sat down with a book and not wanted to put it down…but this was that kind of book for me. I was reminded of the Agatha Christie cozy mysteries as I read it. They aren’t gruesome, they’re just a great suspense novel where you don’t know who the villain is until the very end. After looking up more information about the author, I found out she has a few different series of books. I will definitely be picking many of those up down the line to see if they are just as good as this one was.
I would recommend In Farleigh Field to people who like Agatha Christi, Murder She Wrote, or Clue.
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