Another enjoyable romp with Her Majesty but this time in Sandringham on her Christmas holiday with all the family so it was nice to get them involved too. She may not say much but there is very little that Her Majesty doesn't see or hearand her understanding of human nature is spot on.

This series is so well done. Respectful to the Queen Elizabeth and the whole of the Royal Family but also full of humour. This is another enjoyable read with a plenty of twists and turns in the plot and the same vivid characterisation of the previous two books.
The author brings us along on a believable journey through Sandringham with Rozie. Witnessing Christmas festivities within the Royal household.
The crimes are close enough to the family to attract both police and media attention and we see how Queen Elizabeth handles both with aplomb whilst solving the mystery. With a little bit of help from Rozie of course!!
It is both warm and well written and perfect for anytime of year but also a great Christmas read.
I thoroughly recommend this book.

A beloved character for the ages now following her recent passing, The Queen is the perfect amateur detective with her unique life experience, wise insight and empathy for her fellow human beings. I thoroughly enjoyed Murder Most Royal and immediately purchased the preceding novels in the series. Long to reign over us!

S J Bennett’s skilful story telling and humour made Murder Most Royal an absolute joy to read.

Many thanks to all concerned for allowing me to discover and review this terrific novel.

Oh, I loved this. I have not read the first two, but I will go back and read them. A lovely tribute to the Queen, really well written. I love the premise that the Queen is the detective in these. So funny and different.

I'm not usually a huge fan of the "cosy mystery" genre but I must confess to loving this. It was completely believable that the main character was the Queen. The personalities of the Royals came over as we feel we know them, and made them human and accessible. A good story with red herrings, suspects and lots of laughs along the way. #netgalley #murdermostroyal

SJ Bennett has done it again. I absolutely adore this series. It is fun and quirky. This book was pretty much more of the same, which is definitely a good thing. The characters are great and humorous.

I’ve read the first couple of books in this series and was happy to receive this review copy.
It is a further adventure concerning our late Queen investigating a murder- this time set on her estate of Sandringham, Norfolk around Christmas 2016. When a severed hand is found on a local Norfolk beach Her Majesty recognises it immediately and resolves to work out what has happened to the rest of the body.
Obviously events of the last few months have made the story more poignant but it was still an enjoyable read which was amusing in places.
That said however, I didn’t think it was as good as the first book which had the element of originality. This was more of the same but with an inordinate amount of characters so that at times I found it difficult to work out who everyone was.
I was not quite as engrossed as I had been when reading the first book in the series but I did enjoy reading more about Rozie, the Queens assistant who helps her investigate. I also liked the setting of Sandringham which was well described and I found it interesting to read the anecdotes about the royal family celebrating Christmas there..
I’m sure the book will do well and will appeal to readers who enjoy cosy mysteries.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my advance copy.

A thoroughly enjoyable cosy crime centering around the queen and her aid at the Sandringham estate over the Christmas period. Although not as good as the Windsor Knot, I did enjoy this one.

December 2016. The Queen and Prince Philip arrive at Sandingham for their Christmas break, only to be told that a severed hand has been found, washed up on a beach near the estate.

The Queen, who has a knack for solving crimes, vows not to get involved. It's Christmas and both she and Philip have terrible colds. But when she recognised the signet ring as old family friend, Edward St Cyr, the Queen realises that she might have to get involved after all. Plus, when she heard that a local woman has been a terrible victim of a hit and run, and a local man drowned while open water swimming, the Queen can't help but feel that these are all connected in some way...

Before I go further, I do want to say something very quickly. This book does follow Queen Elizabeth II in 2018 and this is published within a few months after her death. Even the author admits that she was doing her first rounds of editing during the Queen's Jubilee celebration and submit them to her publishers on the same day as Her Majesty's death, which makes this book more poignant for the author and many readers.

I knew this when I went into this, and I did have a weird moment at the start, but this didn't affect my experience. I have really enjoyed the series so far and this instalment was no exception. In fact, I think I liked it a tad more than the rest. I mean, murder, Christmas and the Queen - what's not to like.

I do admit that this is a cosy murder mystery so this might not work for some readers. But I think if you are a fan of the Thursday Murder Club, this should be right up your street. It was fun and entertaining (exactly what I look for in a cosy crime novel). I do think it helped that I listened to the audiobook, read by Samatha Bond, which was an added pleasure. I think I'll have go to my local library and get the audiobooks out so it might help me past the time till book 4, A Death in Diamonds, comes out in February 2024 (this story looks at an younger Queen Elizabeth solving a crime in 1957, which adds a nice layer to the series).

I am going to admit that this series won't be everyone's cup of tea. I think I said this when I read the first and second in the series - The Windsor Knot and The Three Dog Problem. You have to enjoy the lightness of this sub-genre and, because I do, I had a lovely time. But if you like your crime a tad darker/gritter, this might not be the series for you.

This might not be everyone's tea, but I am having fun with these characters and I do plan to revisit them in 2023...

I absolutely love this series and the third installment is no different. Comforting and intriguing in equal measure.

Despite the fact that I REALLY didn't need a reminder about 2016 (I'm trying to block the last decade from my brain), there was a lovely sense of nostalgia in reading this.
Firstly I really miss the Queen. I'm not a royalist but knowing she was alive somewhere was comforting and this book gave me a little of that back.
In this Queen Elizabeth is visiting Sandringham and is intrigued when the hand of her old friend Ned St Cyr shows up on the beach.
She sets about gently but with great interest in solving the mystery of how it got to the beach, where it came from and why did someone kill him.
With the aid of her PA Roz and assisted by various gossip and groups she starts to uncover a conspiracy that leads a little too close to home.
I love the scenes with the Queen and her family, especially Phillip and Harry. Their banter and the little their relationship are so cute. Their gag gifts at Christmas were a delight to read about.
The sheer amount of lunches, brunches, banquets and society meals that the Queen has to go on is astounding and shows how hard they all actually work behind the scenes.
But I think my favourite part of this was how people just opened up to the Queen and told her their secrets, knowing that they were safe. There was some of that in the last book but here women in society who were abused and just told to chin up and carry on felt safe in telling HRM. The fact that the Queen then went on the surreptitiously do something about it was the cherry on the cake. (That Politician who assaulted a woman and then had his career mysteriously blocked at the highest level.)
I must admit I didn't quite follow the rationale behind one character's death but thought that the way the rest of it wrapped up was brilliant. Loved this book and look forward to reading the next one.

I just love this series and am so glad that they can continue since they are set in 2016. I think it was clever to come up with the idea to have so many deaths around the Queen and to pair her with a quirky aide to solve all these murders. The most unique amateur sleuth I’ve read about. I am always saying I would stop hanging around the person who had death following them, but she’s the Queen.

A great cozy series where the characterization is growing and serves as a great.

Having listened to the first two books in the series read by the wonderful Samantha Bond it was a delight to return to the third. The Queen is spending her Christmas at Sandringham when a severed hand is found on a nearby beach. Without her able assistant Rozzie the Queen sets out to solve the mystery. This is such a delightful series of books and of all of them this is probably my favourite. Set within the royal household you can fully imagine the action that occurs with some fabulous cameos from members of the royal family. A cozy murder mystery that takes you back to the golden age of Miss Marple - a perfect Christmas read made all the more poignant by the recent death of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. I’d like to think she would have had a chuckle at this book and that it would have brought a sparkle to her eyes. I look forward to the next in the series. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the AA or sea of this novel in return for an honest review.

Well this is delightful. I've read all three of this series in a week - after starting reading this and realising that I owned the first two and that I'd enjoy the third more if I read them first. I think the first in the series is still the best, but this one works better than the second one. And I think that's because the Sandringham setting means that the Queen can move around a little bit more and also the murder feels a little less contrived than the Buckingham Palace one in the second book. Anyway, I like the characters, I like the setting and I was very happy to spend a time in the world. Sadly now there's a year to wait for the next one!

Delightful, cosy murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie, and her creation Miss Marple. Perfect for reading over the Christmas holidays - set in Sandringham during the Queen's annual visit - this evokes country-house novels from the Golden Age of the Murder Mystery. There is a real sense of place, and, SJ Bennett's characterisations of the Queen and her very able Assistant Private Secretary - Rozie - are believable, even to the fact that they are able to 'solve the crime'! I'm saying no more as I don't wish to give away anything!

Would recommend to anyone who enjoys a good read.

With many thanks to NetGalley and Zaffre for an ARC.

This series of books for me are terribly Birtish and celeartes everythign about how unique we are as a nation and our ability to poke fun at ourselves as we all know the world around us is doing the same.

What can be more British than the Queen at Christmas? What can be more British than a murder mystery to while away the hours.

The book set within the last 8 years, clearly has much it can mention about Brexit, Prime Ministers and current girlfriends of royal princes. At Christmas it was well known that HM The Queen decamped to Sandringham, a house owned privately by her and where she spent over a month until her accession day. This year is no different, apart from the fact that her and Phillip are suffering from colds and flu, oh and a severed hand ends up on the beach next to the estate.

The severed hand has a signet ring on it and The Queen recognises it as belonging to Edward St Cyr, a neighbour and someone who used to play with Charles when he was a small boy. Not without his eccentricities, finding the rest of Edward and who actually committed the murder is going to keep the Queen and her APS Rozie, quite busy over the festive period.

Like any place, whether it be large or small, gossip and rumours abound even when you have Royalty as neighbours. With Rozie tasked to find out certain information, the Queen uses her unique position to question, influence and probe without anyone realising. The truth will always out. The Queen will help and no one will ever know. Or only those that need to know.

This book, this series, is just a delightful warm tribute to her late majesty and you can only but imagine that she would have found such a thing amusing. Of course we never know what really goes on, and if we did that would ruin the mystique and if this is as close as we can get with it then I am all for it and cannot wait for more.

For fans of cosy mysteries, historical fiction, royalty and everything British.

This has been a lovely series of books and the latest one is no exception. I really couldn't imagine the Queen getting involved in crime solving but has made an interesting read.

A great book with the Queen as a discrete hand behind the scenes solving a murder mystery. I enjoyed the gentle humour and the descriptions of royal life that I would like to believe were based on a version of the truth. Highly recommended!

An original take on a cosy mystery but it didn't quite come off. I think it might have worked better if it were a fictional royal rather than a recently deceased one. I am not a royalist so possibly wasn't as interested in the machinations of the royal family. Not a bad read and I'm glad I tried it. I liked the author's humour so if they write other bother books I would certainly give them a go

I haven't read any other books in this series, but I will now! I loved this book - a humorous and clever story, with great characters, and of course a great tribute to the Queen. I would definitely recommend this book.