title: Bright Hair About the Bone (Leatitia Talbot Mysteries, No. 2)
author:  Barbara Cleverly 
description: Dagger Award&ndash;winner Cleverly's third Laetitia Talbot mystery falls short of the high standard set by the first in this historical series, <I>The Tomb of Zeus</I> (2007).&Acirc;&nbsp;Talbot, a fiercely independent amateur sleuth in the spirit of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher, is plunged into international intrigue after her godfather, Daniel Thorndon, is stabbed to death in Burgundy in 1926.&Acirc;&nbsp;Before dying, Thorndon managed to mail a coded postcard to Talbot, using a cipher the two had shared when she was much younger.&Acirc;&nbsp;Aided by an improbable bodyguard, a military chaplain who served in WWI, Talbot journeys to France, where she uses her archeological skills to link up with a dig that may enable her to solve the mystery of Thorndon's death.&Acirc;&nbsp;Stock characters abound, like an enigmatic but handsome French nobleman, rather than the original creations who populate Cleverly's Joe Sandilands historical series (<I>Ragtime in Simla</I>, etc.).&Acirc;&nbsp;<I>(Oct.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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