A review by softstarrynights
Black Ship by Carola Dunn

3.0

That's right. I'm back on the Daisy Dalrymple train. Maybe it's because I took a break, or maybe this book was especially good, but I had a great time reading. Black Ship is the seventeenth-- that's right the seventeenth-- book in the Daisy Dalrymple series, a cosy mystery series set in 1920s London. In this installment Daisy finds herself embroiled in a murder connected to her new neighbors, who may or may not be importing alcohol to prohibition America. As you would expect the book follows essentially the same formula as its sixteen predecessors. That's fine. That's expected. However, there was something unusual about this one. Thur far the books have been told in the third person following Daisy, and sometimes Alec, the investigating detective. This book gave us interludes that followed a completely different character in between the first few chapters. I'm not sure how I felt about it, or whether it necessarily added to the story, but it was fun to see the author experimenting. I thought that the pacing of the mystery was good, especially as the pressure ramped up towards the end. I loved how well Daisy managed to insert herself into the investigation so that she wasn't constantly playing catch up to the detectives. All in all, this was a very fun addition to the series and I have a great time reading it.