Emma Jameson

A cop is murdered and Kate is on bed rest for her incipient pregnancy. So Paul and the Guv have to take the weight. Cold crimes that the murdered officer was investigating are a starting place and lead to lots of current issues. Several real but diverse bad guys are involved so the body count climbs, currently and from the past.
These many detecting distractions plus Kate's laid-back, pun intended, prenatal attitude cause the baby's arrival to be mostly overlooked. Fortunately, Henry and a show more black taxi save the day. All in all an excellent entry in this very good series. show less

Ben and Juliet manage to sustain their rather unusual relationship with the help of their friends as they conspire to resolve another local mystery. An insightful look at the English countryside as WW2 starts to have an impact.

BLUE MURDER by Emma Jameson is the 2nd Lord and Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series title.
A very ‘disturbing’ Halloween party in Chelsea is interrupted by a double axe murder.
The characters/suspects are all extremely unlikeable - rich, spoiled, entitled, narcissistic 20 somethings. And then there is the suspicious next-door neighbor high on the police radar and a source of deep embarrassment for DS Depal Bhar.
I do like our main detective characters - they are smart, interesting and show more hard-working. I find the romance between DS Kate Wakefield and Lord (DI) Hetheridge cute, but extraordinarily unrealistic. DS Depal (Paul) Bhar is a bundle of insecurities and his mother (who he lives with) is a hoot, or a terror- take your pick!
This is not a thriller, or a particularly accurate police procedural; the ending is a bit rushed, but I am getting fond of the characters and series in general. **** show less

Blue Murder is the second book in author Emma Jameson's Lord and Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series. It was interesting to learn that to "scream blue murder" is a British slang term for complaining in an angry way. All of the books in the series have the word "blue" in the title and there are seven book in the series to date.

In Blue Murder two men were found dead at a Halloween party hosted by Emmeline Wardle, the teen daughter of a frozen food baron. Handsome Trevor Parsons was found with an show more axe in his head and computer nerd Clive French was also found dead in the garden of the home. Clive also had an axe in his head. Clive was not invited to the party but showed up anyway. Since all of the party goers, thirty nine, were children of the wealthy New Scotland Yard asked Chief Superintendent Anthony Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave, to investigate. His girlfriend, Detective Sergeant Kate Wakefield was also involved in the investigation as was her partner, Detective Sergeant Deepal "Paul" Bhar.

I really enjoyed this novel. In fact, it was even better than Ice Blue. The dialogue between the police officers showed the closeness of their relationships with each other. The three of them work well together. I am not usually a fan of a police procedural but this cozy mystery hit the spot. The British flavor of the setting helped, even though many of the colloquiallisms were very American. They still came off as British. show less