A very witty and affectionate portrayal of the Queen in this entertaining "detective" novel. Who knew that the Queen has been solving mysteries since the Coronation? Only a very select band of her intimate courtiers who appear to do a lot of the leg work allowing the Queen to exercise her brain to identify the villain; because of her position she cannot discuss matters directly with the police/secret services but she can drop hints and use her trusted confidants to relay information to the relevant authorities.

It is of course totally far-fetched but the author writes with such conviction and authority that it makes "one" think that it could be true!

I'm looking forward to the next instalment and thank NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

A Royal Double Life....
The first in a new series - ‘Her Majesty The Queen Investigates’. We find that the Queen has, in fact, been living a Royal double life. In her spare hours she has turned to amateur investigations. When a body is discovered at Windsor Castle, following a dinner party, the Queen turns to her investigative prowess to solve the crime. A fun, escapist read with a likeable protagonist and a colourful cast of supporting characters not to mention a huge dose of humour. Extremely entertaining.

The queen has caught a terrible case of the Jessica Fletchers and apparently it’s been going on for years! But being the queen she can’t very well go about investigating stuff willy nilly she’s far too busy running the country, she needs a stout pair of legs to do it for her - enter a series of over qualified girl fridays. The latest one is Rozzie and she’s set to find out what happened to the handsome Russian suspiciously and sloppily hanged in his room at Windsor Castle.
The queen takes a much bigger role in this book than I thought she would. I thought she would be in Charlie in Charlie’s Angels winding Rozzie up and letting her go but we spend quite a bit of time with the queen as she reflects on her life at Windsor’s castle and the day to day functioning of the monarchy. This is interesting of itself but Bennet has created a pretty kick arse character in Rozzie and then barely uses her. She becomes a sounding board, someone put there to listen rather than be proactive in investigating the crime. I want more of Rozzie please!

What a fun book! Fully grounded in reality but a complete flight of fantasy at the same time. Fiction involving the Queen is not entirely new but this book more than stands up to the fun of Sue Townsend's The Queen and I as well as Alan Bennett's Uncommon Reader.

The Queen as a super sleuth is wonderful, I hope there's more to come.

I loved this book!! I had reservations at first thinking it'd be spoofy a bit like that animated film queen's corgi, but the Queen came across as a realistic loveable character, and the investigation was gripping and logical; I didn't see the end coming until the last few chapters. My only gripe with it was the fact it was set in 2016 so you constantly had to be thinking back to what the political scene was then and who was with whom in the royal family etc. I would definitely read something else by this author, and hope this is just 1 of a series as I enjoyed it so much