Janet Neel

Janet Neel’s “Death Among the Dons” was my crime novel discovery of last year, and so I decided to read her series about DI John McLeish and high-flying civil servant Francesca Wilson from the beginning. ”Death’s Bright Angel” starts with what could just be an ordinary London mugging, except that the attacker of the elderly accountant from Yorkshire does not content himself with taking his victim’s valuables – among them the expensive watch just received for twenty-five years’ of service and very proudly worn – but stops to make ...