Small Change

Set in a stunning alternative world of 1949 Britain, where WWII ended with a truce between Hitler and Churchill, Jo Walton’s Small Change series, beginning with Farthing, is an astonishing mix of science fiction, politics, and the ultimate “what-if”. When Lucy marries, against her parents’ wishes, a London Jew named David, the two get invited to a high society party, where they’re soon framed for the murder of a major politician. Sounds like a job for Scotland Yard’s greatest inspector, Peter Carmichael. “Masterful work…. This is political suspense at its best and brightest.” (Bookslut). The series continues in Ha’penny and Half a Crown.