Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh

This novel is quite interesting. It doesn't read quite like Sayers unadulterated, of course, and one might notice the literary references are less subtle and the characters slightly updated (also one wonders whether knowledge of WWII changed some of the foreshadowing). The book is as much a psychological novel about Peter and Harriet (as indeed, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Holiday turned out) as it is a murder mystery. There's also some heavy-handed and rather self-conscious theorization about why it isn't frivolous to write murder mysteries (hope for a world in which things are neatly ordered)--and you do end up wondering which author these fears come from (especially as the beginnings of the draft were started as Sayers put away her murder mysteries for more religious and academic work [like Harriet's treatise on Sheridan LeFanu]). Of course, it's a pleasure to see the Wimseys again. If you expect another Gaudy Night, I think this book will disappoint you, but if you don't ask it to be what it's not, it may pleasantly surprise you.