Review: Wendy Darlin's Continuing Adventures as Tomb Raider
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2013
If you're looking for a fun mystery to launch Autumn check out London Broil by Barbara Silkstone, comedy/mystery writer and author of the Wendy Darlin series. The first book in the series, Wendy and the Lost Boys, introduces the reader to Wendy, real estate agent and assistant tomb raider and "her archeologist" Roger Jolley. Book two of the series London Broil, takes the adventures to London during a terrible heat wave. The two seekers continue their quest for the 13th Lost Boy in spite of a stolen car, a crazed rogue cabbie, and ever rising temperatures.The Lost Boys, the Shadows or death icons of the infant sons of the fourth dynasty pharaoh, Kjoser were stolen and number thirteen is still missing. Having found the twelve they are commissioned by Benny Hannah to locate the last Boy and upon his return to the British Museum, receive a very handsome reward. Murder, mayhem and kidnapping zigzag throughout the story as the pair search for clues and become targets of nefarious others  also wanting to find the 13th Boy.Not your "run of the mill" mystery series, Silkstone weaves a tale that is not only a "whodunit" but humorous to boot. We meet a man with "cab door" ears, a  dundering bad guy built like a mountain, a vicious loan shark, dancing geese, and a cast of characters reminiscent of Peter Pan and the 1963 film, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."  If you're a mystery buff, you will find London Broil a fun romp through London, laugh at the antics of the ubiquitous geese and enjoy meeting Victor Veal, Ox, Algy Green, deranged Darcy, narcoleptic Matty, little Treanna, Tinkerbelle, and the honeymooners. Silkstone's Wendy Darlin series puts mystery reading in a whole new package.