Istanbul and intrigue!

Intrigue in Istanbul (Jane Wunderly Mystery #4) by Erica Ruth Neubauer    

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My first widowed Jane Wunderly novel. Since then I’ve very happily read the previous titles. If only to find out more about Redvers (now Janes fiancé), and how they met. More importantly who was the bad man Jane had been married to.

Set in 1926, Jane arrives home in Boston with her fiancé only to find her archeological father’s dashed off to Istanbul, having taken out a loan on their house. Subsequently all the mail including details about the loan and repayments have been languishing. Jane realizes it’s only three weeks before their house is possessed by the Bank, so it’s off to Istanbul lickety split!

There she runs into her Aunt Millie and her fiancé Lord Hughes, and a white Russian woman from Redvers past. Jane makes the acquaintance of a mysterious woman who knows her father rather well.

I’m thrilled to recall various landmarks of Istanbul I’d visited in the past. The Blue Mosque, the Grand Bizarre. And I remember those Cisterns well. Fabulous!

Bodies litter the ground behind them as they catch the Orient Express into Hungary and then move on to a smaller town where it appears Jane’s father is looking for the legendary lost heart of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

I’m unsure about how I feel about the ending, although there was no other outcome. Just pressed the boundaries a little too much. All dovetailing nicely but yet?

A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.