DI Beatrice Stubbs Prequel
Review of the Prewett Bielmann Ltd. eBook edition (2018) available exclusively through the author.

[3.5 bumped to 4]
A friend recently recommended the DI Beatrice Stubbs series (2012 - ongoing) to me and I curious enough to get started right away. When I looked at the series of books I saw that this prequel had been added in 2018 and that the synopsis said that it would explain 'the incident'. I was not spoiled about the series, so I had no idea what 'the incident' was going to be. It turned out to be something much more shocking than what I was expecting. No spoilers here.

See book cover at https://www.jjmarshauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/black-dogs-yellow-butte...
Alternate cover for the eBook. Image sourced from the author J.J. Marsh's Website.

There are actually several story lines to Black Dogs, Yellow Butterflies. None of those have anything specifically to do with the title, which is used in a symbolic sense. There is an investigation of human trafficking and a parallel case of police corruption. The story is set in 2011 and the London Riots of August 2011 also play a key role. On the human interest side we learn about Beatrice Stubbs personal life which involves a love relationship with Matthew and friendship with his two grown daughters Marianne and Tanya. There is also a friendship with her neighbour Adrian, who is a shopkeeper. At Scotland Yard, there is her boss Hamilton, an admin assistant Melanie, and a team of DS Rangarajan Jalan and DS Dawn Whittaker. Presumably most of these characters have a continuing role to play in the series.

I enjoyed this free introduction to DI Beatrice Stubbs and plan to continue with the series. ( )