A review by pineapplestitches
The Serpent In The Garden by Janet Gleeson

4.0

Set in London 1795. The protagonist is Joshua Pope, eminent portrait painter of the time commissioned to paint a marriage portrait of Sabine Mercier and Herbert Bentnick. Sabine has a mysterious past and an exotic emerald necklace fashioned after a serpent. Joshua is pressed into service to solve not only the theft of the necklace but the death of an unknown man in the pinery (hothouse for pineapples).

A good solid historican murder mystery with a few twists. The atmosphere believeable and the characters well drawn.