Death at St. James's Palace Book

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did--it is squarely in my time period, with blind judge Sir John Fielding and his (fictional) colleague the apothecary/detective main character, and the murder is motivated by thoroughly 18th century things. The writing is just....clunky, with a lot of telling rather than showing, and as this is a series, a lot of unnecessary catching up and reintroduction of characters and events from previous books.