{"id":36543,"date":"2020-04-03T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=36543"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:31:53","slug":"dying-in-the-wool-a-kate-shackleton-mystery-by-frances-brody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/dying-in-the-wool-a-kate-shackleton-mystery-by-frances-brody\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying in the Wool: A Kate Shackleton Mystery by Frances Brody"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We meet amateur sleuth and former World War I nurse, Kate Shackleton a few years after the conclusion of the war in her small village of Bridgestead, England in the first book of the Kate Shackleton Mystery series, Dying in the Wool\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Frances Brody.\u00a0 Kate is still reeling from her husband being declared missing in the war but, at the same time,\u00a0 continues to hold out hope that he is alive.\u00a0 As a nurse in the war, Kate has picked up the skills of a sleuth in helping a few fellow nurses find missing loved ones.\u00a0 She has gained quite the reputation as a novice detective and based on her reputation one fellow nurse, Tabitha Braithwaite, calls on Kate for a mystery of her own.<\/p>\n

Tabitha is engaged to be married within weeks and her wish before she walks down the aisle is to find her father, Joshua Braithwaite, who mysteriously disappeared and no trace of him was ever found.\u00a0 Was Mr. Braithwaite, the owner and operator of a textile mill, a victim of someone with a grudge, did he stage his own disappearance or is the truth something more sinister?\u00a0 Kate has little time to dig to the bottom of the mystery before Tabitha’s wedding day.\u00a0 She meets a cast of characters in the village, including many mill workers who may have a grudge against the powerful mill owner and are potential suspects.\u00a0 Kate, along with Sykes, a former detective who she hires as an employee, get closer and closer to finding the truth with potential murderous results.\u00a0 Told in alternative chapters merging past and present, Dying in the Wool<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0 gives the reader a glimpse into British society and culture in the early 1920s within a cozy mystery.<\/p>\n

One of the most unique aspects of this mystery is the detail that Brody adds to the novel regarding the British textile mill industry immediately following WWI.\u00a0 It is clear she has done her research, giving the reader a sense of the intricacies of how this industry was run.\u00a0 Readers of Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series may want to consider starting this series (the eleventh book in the series came out in November).\u00a0 I’m already nearly done the second book, A Medal for Murder<\/a>, <\/strong><\/em>and am looking forward to the third!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We meet amateur sleuth and former World War I nurse, Kate Shackleton a few years after the conclusion of the war in her small village of Bridgestead, England in the first book of the Kate Shackleton Mystery series, Dying in the Wool\u00a0 by Frances Brody.\u00a0 Kate is still reeling from[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5,1,8],"tags":[4848,2899,1631,3149,4999,1135,228],"class_list":["post-36543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-cozy-mysteries","tag-missing-person","tag-nurse","tag-textiles","tag-village-life","tag-world-war-i"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-9vp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36543"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36618,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543\/revisions\/36618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}