Split Code

Split Code (Book 6)

By Dorothy Dunnett

Genre:-Classic Crime/Women Sleuths/Humour

Pages:-304

Publisher:-Farrago

Blurb:-The sixth in a series of witty, erudite suspense mysteries, by the celebrated classic author-with an independent, smart heroine and an ending sure to surprise!

To all appearances Joanna Emerson is a fully qualified, gold-medalled graduate of the world's finest college of Nursery Nurses. No sooner is she engaged as a nanny to Benedict, newly born heir to a vast cosmetic fortune however, than she becomes caught up n a complex kidnap plot.

 But the enigmatic portrait painter, yachtsman and former spy, Johnson Johnson is never far away-and he knows the dangerous game she's playing. Before long, bullets are flying, and most of them in Joanna's direction.

'The Dolly novels are...delicious, funny, ingenious, glamorous, clever.' Listener

'Dunnett tempts her fans with buried clues and red herrings that keep them reading and rereading the books.' New York Times

'(Dunnett's) women are among her strongest characters.' Guardian

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My Review:-This is Book 6 in 'A Dolly Mystery'. I've had the pleasure of reading and reviewing all 5 other books. In this book we meet Joanna Emerson who has trained as a nursery nurse and now works as a nanny for the Booker-Readmans, looking after their son baby Benedict. The family are very wealthy. In this book we have a train that becomes unhooked from the main train and ends up stranded and left in the freezing temperatures of Canada. Johnson Johnson know Joanna's father as he is a colleague of his. Johnson and his beloved yacht Dolly is never to far away from the action and always there to help with the trouble that is out there. Who and why did someone want Joanna to get this job? There are plenty of red herrings and twists throughout the book which I love.  Now we are coming nearer to the end of 'A Dolly Mystery' I would love to see a bit more about Johnson Johnson and what's behind his bi-focals he wears