Lessons for Suspicious Minds (Cambridge Fellows #10) by Charlie Cochrane

Well done Edwardian period style whodunit with real feel of the era

4 highly eloquent stars

I received a free copy via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the tenth part of the Cambridge Fellow Mysteries and the first book of the series and the first I had the pleasure to read. Now I'm definitely hungry for more "Lessons".

The authentic way of speech Cochrane  uses was at first a bit hard getting used to because honestly how many historical fiction novels can you think of that actually employ the correct form of speech from the time they play in? I can't think of many and this book really reads like something that was written quite a few decades ago. But certainly not in a bad way. The language and writing are just so smooth, plus, I'm a sucker for speech from the 19th and Early 20th century. It didn't take long for me to fall in love with the writing.


Jonty's and Orlando's hobby and passion is solving crimes, the more difficult a mystery the better. This time they are given a case at the Fyfield estate, which belongs to Jonty's godmother (or was it his mother's godmother?).  Almost everyone else thinks is obvious suicide but the more the two investigate with the support of Mr. and Mrs. Steward the more they are convinced that there is more to the suicide than meets the eye, especially when they stumble upon another one that seems to be strangely related to the first one.

The outcome of the case was one I did not anticipate and while the mystery in itself wasn't very action packed or anything it was still highly entertaining and the two main characters are just so compatible and cute together.
This book is not for impatient people because time and time again their inquiries leads the lads to a dead end and they have to reconsider the solutions they found possible up to that point. It's not action packed and it my opinion this fits the language, writing style and characters really well and makes for a believeable mystery whodunit.