There's a bit of uncanny valley reading books written during my early adulthood. The 1990s are far enough back now that a new book set there would technically be a historical, and I can't help placing myself in the context of the book. Jill Paton Walsh's second mystery, A Piece of Justice was published in 1995, otherwise known as the Time Before Cell Phones, and Imogen Quy, nurse for St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, might have continued her medical studies rather than giving them up for her former fiance if she's been born in the late 60s instead of the mid 50s. Imogen rents rooms in the house she inherited from her parents and one of her boarders takes on the biography of a deceased Cambridge mathematician. One researcher has died and another disappeared and it appears that the widow is behind the crimes. Imogen solves the mystery with a bit of coincidence, a quilt, and a trip to Wales. It's a quick read (under 200 pages), and a good way to spend a cozy afternoon.
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