A delightful start to a new KJ Charles trilogy! I enjoyed so many elements of this novel - the main character inheriting a bookshop after the Great War, Will's difficulties figuring out how he fit into life in England again, those issues becoming even more complicated when he's suddenly in the middle of a mystery of great importance, and then a man with more to his past (and present) than is initially obvious stepping into his life. Kim and Will have a dynamic that basically lets this author do what she does best: a forthright and damaged Englishman dealing with someone who cannot tell the truth about themselves for a variety of reasons, but who desperately wishes he could about this person in particular.
There is a wonderful supporting cast to this story as well, and the central mystery is grounded in the era and complicated and all that, but truly this is the sort of book that promises a situation where one of them ends up in a tricky situation and the other comes to rescue him, while still not entirely telling him the truth about the matter, and it's all so good. I read this during a very difficult week, and it was a wonderful and desperately needed distraction.
Grade: A
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