Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill

Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill ISBN-13: 9781464207013 Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Released: January 6, 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Wealthy Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, reluctantly agrees to a charity race. He'll drive his beloved yellow Mercedes on the Maroubra Speedway, renamed the Killer Track for the lives it has claimed. His teammates are a young Errol Flynn and the well-known driver Joan Richmond. It's all good fun. But then people start to die...

The body of a journalist covering the race is found murdered in a House of Horrors. An English blueblood with Blackshirt affiliations dies in a Maroubra crash. Reporters stalk Rowly for dirt while bookmakers are after an edge. When someone takes a shot at him-it could be anyone. Then the police arrest one of Rowly's housemates for murder.

Meanwhile, the world is giving Hitler the benefit of the doubt, the Australian right rallies against Communists, and Rowly, fond of his German car and the German people, resolves to wake his world to the mounting horror of the Nazis he has experienced firsthand. Rowland Sinclair is again hurtling toward disaster with an artist, a poet, and a brazen sculptress along for the ride...


My Review:
Give the Devil His Due is a mystery set in 1934 in Australia. This is the seventh novel in a series. You don't have to read the previous books in order to follow this one.

Besides the mystery, the story involved the dangers of a romance gone wrong and of car racing. Rowley ended up in quite bad shape between all three storylines. The mystery was a clue-based. Rowley and his friends asked questions and followed up on clues because the detective on the case felt that one of Rowley's friends was the murderer. Interesting historical details were woven into the the story. The main characters were interesting, engaging people.

There was a fair amount of bad language. There were no sex scenes. Overall, I'd recommend this interesting novel.


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