The Body in Griffith Park by Jennifer Kincheloe

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I listened to the audio book, and Moira Quirk is the perfect narrator for the story. The Body... is nearly amazing and I wish they'd let me give 4.5, not just 4 or 5 here.

This is the third book in the Anna Blanc mystery series. You could start here, and it would be a good experience, but I recommend starting with The Secret Life of Anna Blanc.

Anna is the disinherited daughter of a conservative banker in the early 1900s. She had been raised sheltered and isolated to her own class.

Her energy and intelligence, although untrained and trained wrong in so many ways, won't let her take the expected path. She became an L. A. police matron.

The eponymous body in Griffith Park draws her in, turning up, as it does, almost at her feet. In this outing Anna, again, has to fight against societal strictures as well as her own inexperience. She has learned from past experiences, so she has grown. Still, her focus on solving the murder leads to both humorous and dangerous events.

I don't want to do spoilers, but I'm not showing how good The Body in Griffith Park is. Anna will charm and sometimes frustrate you just as she does with the people around her. Yet you will find the experience exhilarating, as Detective Joe does.

Read this book. If you start here first, it will make you want to go back. If you've read Anna's adventures before, it will light off in you all those series satisfactions that attend a really good series!



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