Only days after his peaceful return home, Rumpole’s wife shows up with all their luggage and the determination that it is her duty to be wherever he is. This is easy-to-read legal fiction that will take you through the streets of Florida into the compound of a cult and bring you up against a smut publisher. No problem Rumpole simply moves back in anyway, essentially crowding the young new guy out. So back he goes to find his office filled with a new attorney. Better yet, he reasons, he can go home without She Who Must Be Obeyed and perhaps start a peaceful life where no one nags him or makes unreasonable demands on his time. Rumpole knew he had to go back home, especially after a bizarre encounter with a member of a sunshine cult left him mildly disturbed. His colleague casually mentioned a murder and had a simple question about blood. But sunshine and ease are the last thing the curmudgeonly Rumpole needs.Ī casual letter nonchalantly sent by a colleague back home stirs Rumpole back to life and to a decision to return to England. That’s especially true when you consider that Rumpole has lost most of his last several cases. in Florida, a grandchild is months away from birth, and She Who Must Be Obeyed, (Rumpole’s wife for those of you who have never read the series), is adamant that what the old lawyer most needs is a life filled with sunshine and ease. Poor Horace Rumpole has essentially been forced into retirement. This one is delightfully short and a grand read by any measure. Just when I think I’ve visited England’s most famous fictional barrister for the last time without repeating books, I stumble on another one I haven’t read.
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