Enjoying these so much, I immediately bought the 3rd Brodie novel (no.335 is the 1st and no.336 the 2nd).
This took a bit of time to get going, partly because Brodie hardly appears for the first 100 or so pages. The central figure in this book is really the wonderful Reggie, a Dickensian child (I think she is 16 but looks younger) who is better written about than any of Dickens sentimentalised children.
The failed love, which has failed because they have both accidentally married other people, between Brodie and the detective Louise, who appears in no.334, is deftly and beautifully written.
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