Book Review: To Love and Be Wise is the fourth Inspector Grant mystery, and each has been better than the one before. This volume was the most compelling of the series so far, such that I read the final 50 pages in a sitting. A cozy mystery, set in a rural village that has become a colony for the London arts community, that has all the elements for a good puzzle. Inspector Grant is more steady than brilliant, he's no Sherlock Holmes, but the mystery intrigues and the characters entertain. The Scottish Josephine Tey (also a London playwright) knew the people she wrote about. Fortunately, To Love and Be Wise doesn't contain the casual class prejudices of her earlier novels. Instead it contains her usual perfect writing and intelligent approach, and is always very British. The ending will be a surprise. [4★]
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