Book Review: "Lady Rample Steps Out" by Shéa MacLeod

Are you an aristocrat bored of your life? Are you looking for something that would excite you from head to toe? Maybe Lady Rample can help you; just go with her to a jazz nightclub and find yourself with a murder.

Set in the picturesque 1930s London, Shéa MacLeod introduces us to Lady Ophelia Rample, a cheerful widow of high society fond of drinking, fast cars and adventure with an almost humble past, as she was the daughter of an ultraconservative parish priest. She has a tendency to avoid social gatherings with her peers the best she can, because they bored her not to say more; at that point that in one of those inevitable agglomerations she decides to go with her best friend, Charles "Chaz" Raynott III, to the Astoria, a jazz club whose owners were Lady Helena Fairfax, a recognized lady of society, and Alfred Musgrave, a man with connections to organized crime.

Is in that place where Lady R will debut in the world of police and thieves, because a few minutes after midnight a murder occurs.

Of 18 chapters, this book was undoubtedly a cool entertainment, with its ups and downs throughout the plot. The characters seemed interesting to me; each one of them has a distinctive personality that makes you remember (with a lot or little affection) the characters of the emblematic universe of Agatha Christie, from whom the author confesses to being a fan since she was a child. For example, Lady R and her aunt, Butty, reminded me a lot of Miss Marple for their natural curiosity about crime; the Fairfax, meanwhile, reminded me of the Redferns, who appeared in the novel Evil Under the Sun.

The description of the Interwar period's London seemed idyllic, with a detective touch. It was like you were in the skin of the heroine of history, wandering through its streets chasing an enemy who is maybe more cunning than yourself.

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