A review by scknitter
Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

4.0

The women have finally had enough. They have all been wronged in some way by Jamie Spelman even if one of the seven has yet to acknowledge this fact. They begin meeting to discuss their pain and hurt and hopefully to find some way to get back at him. Maybe the police will finally believe that Jamie is a bad person if they unite and find others he has hurt. Then they receive a call from an anonymous number to meet in the secret room they have been using because of an undisclosed emergency. When they arrive Jamie’s severed head is sitting on a table in the center of the room. One of them must have killed him and he definitely deserved it, but can they find out who did it and at the same time protect them. This clever but definitely dark mystery is told from 7 points of view of the women who knew Jamie, plus that of the policewoman who is the past lover of one of the women and who is also fed up with being mistreated and not listened to by men and fed up with her job. Each of the characters has a distinctive voice and as their stories are told you will soon get to know each one of them and while you will want to know who killed Jamie and why, you will also understand why no one should be punished.