Ghastly murder!

Murder on Platform Four (Tate and Bell Mystery #4) by Irina Shapiro               

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Inspector Sebastian Bell with the Metropolitan Police is at Paddington Station awaiting the arrival of his brother Simian when his attention is grabbed by a distraught junior porter trying explaining to the Station Manager that he’s just discovered a body in a trunk in unclaimed baggage. Sebastian of course becomes involved, leaving his brother to fend for himself. The brother he hasn’t seen or spoken to for many years. Now it seems his work has interfered with the opportunity to make amends.

Gemma Tate increasingly sees herself as an investigator, although she is a nurse who’d worked in Crimea with Florence Nightingale. Currently she’s employed by Dr.  Colin Ramsay as live in nurse helping Colin with his mother Anne who is suffering from dementia.

Colin is a surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital. He has some private students. He also conducts post mortems for the police when asked.

Gemma often finds out information Sebastian can’t. She also gives voice to observations from the woman’s perspective, which has been immensely helpful.

I’m increasingly worried about Gemma. She has yet to learn restraint and fearlessly confronts a suspect.  In this case the suspect injures others in his flight.

I feel Gemma needs a bit more street smarts.

Another lively story in this historical Victorian series.

A Storm Pub. ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.