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Title: Not up to her usual standard
Review: What usually makes Churchill's "Jane and Shelley" team so personable is their ability to use their knowledge of human nature to solve a mystery they have a sincere interest in. In this book, Shelley and Jane reveal that they don't know much about feminism, equating "feminism" with "man-hating idiocy". (I know many, many feminists. Never yet met one who insisted on calling women by men's names.) They don't use any of their own knowledge to solve the mystery--and in fact they never do. It's solved by sheer accident, as if the writer suddenly said to herself, "Oops! Forgot to reveal the murderer!"I have really enjoyed all the other books in this series (some more, some less, but I enjoyed them). "Mulch Ado About Nothing" was a bit weak. But this book I actually disliked. I'm not sure whether I'll be following the series in the future.
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