Murder At Gulls Nest

In what I hope is going to be a continuing series, Jess Kidd introduces readers to Nora Breen, former nun, in her latest book Murder At Gulls Nest (#1,360).  

The Gulls Nest in question is a rundown boarding house perched on the edge of an equally down-at-the-heels beach resort town in Kent.  Nora has left her order after thirty years and is using her time to investigate why another young postulant of the order has stopped writing to her.  

Freida Brogan's health has forced her back out into the world, and she landed at Gulls Nest for the beneficial sea air.  So why has she suddenly stopped writing to Sister Agnes of the Cross and disappeared from the boarding house, leaving everything behind?  Nora is having a hard time getting the police in Gore-on-Sea take her inquiries about Freida seriously.

Until there is a mysterious death at Gulls Nest, followed by a second death and a beating.  Now Inspector Rideout is willing to take Nora's suspicions seriously and take advantage of the skills she offers to solve the mysteries.

It's quite a dark, bleak series set in the years just after World War II.  Miss Kidd has introduced a cast of "flotsam and jetsam" characters to inhabit Gulls Nest.  You certainly wouldn't want to eat there, and even more certainly not partake of any hot beverages on offer!  Nora is such a wonderful character I hope there will be more of her adventures "in the world" to come.  Don't miss this one.