Review: Death and Glory

Death and Glory by Will Thomas
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The fifteenth mystery in Will Thomas's decades-running Barker and Llewelyn series keeps things fresh and unexpected as Victorian London's top enquiry agents take on a mystery involving former Confederates, thirty years after the end of the Civil War. As well-known as it is that there were many who continued to believe in the "Lost Cause" even to the present day, this book also dwells on aspects of the Confederacy that even I didn't know, or perhaps forgot about. Such as their plans to eventually annex a number of Latin American and Caribbean nations (to the point where the Knights of the Golden Circle in this book count among their number a Colombian, born after 1865). But also there's a conspiracy element that I won't spoil here, other than to say that it's eerily plausible, especially based on Thomas's afterword where he talks about having researched this theory in his local library in Tulsa. And because if I remember correctly, he pulled a similar twist with another historical killer a few books ago, so if any author can make me believe such a story, it's Thomas.

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