The murder/detection part of the plot is tight and packed with all the desired misdirections and characters who muddle things in trying to protect each other. The story shows the frustrations and options for women who long for something outside the scripts that their era and class have written for them. Pat and Fenella are both engaging characters who invoke and then break free from the stereotypes that society pushes them into. And a handy storm keeps them penned in while suspicions and anxieties are high. The supporting cast is the usual assortment of colorful characters, all of whom have excellent reasons for wanting the rather unpleasant victim dead. When Pat shows up to join her best friend’s shooting party, she doesn’t expect to find herself falling for his fiancée…or thrown into the middle of a murder where her brother may well be a prime suspect. Proper English by KJ Charles is a good old-fashioned Edwardian country-house murder mystery.
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