I stumbled across this while doing some testing of the “missed books” command in bookiez.el. It’s one of those “… and FAMOUS DEAD AUTHOR” books, so I assumed it was going to be totally awful. But I saw that it had positive reviews, so I gave it a shot.
It’s pretty bad. I mean, it’s competently written on a sentence by sentence basis, but it’s got none of Sayers’ charm and wit. It’s just incredibly tedious. I made it one quarter through before realising I just didn’t care at all about what was going on, and I ditched it.
A Presumption of Death (2002) by Jill Paton Walsh (buy used, 4.02 on Goodreads)