A Murder of No Account by Julia Underwood review

The story was set during the beginning of World War II in England.  Eve Duncan, a young woman with a policeman boyfriend who doesn't really make much of an appearance in this book, works in the post office as supervisor of a censor department.  Walking home with a longtime male friend, they happen upon a small group who have discovered an unknown young woman laying on the sidewalk.  Eve and her friend, Charlie, go to see, and Charlie determines the young woman is dead.  He goes to get the police, and everyone besides Eve disappear.

The police question them, and then (because the police are shorthanded because of the war) ask them to help.  First Eve and Charlie are asked to help by looking for witnesses, and then Eve becomes even more involved.

I found the pace of the story a little slow, and there were a lot of unlikely events--from the minor one of Eve sleeping with her boyfriend in her apartment regularly, to the major ones of the police asking Eve and Charlie to do their investigating for them,  and the police not caring much about the murder, to the point where Eve is left to find someone to identify the body.  There are others, but they would give away too much of the plot, so I'll refrain from mentioning them.

I didn't find the story terrible, but it wasn't good, either.  On the up side, there weren't a lot of grammar mistakes and typos, and the theme itself was interesting.  It also featured some of the things that had happened in England during the beginning of the War, such as air raids and staying in air raid shelters.  It is the first in a series, so I'm hoping the second book is better.  




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This completes the challenge for me for authors!