New story line

I don’t know about you but I feel a book needs to have a story line, something that runs through it and ties the incidents together. It was easy with the last two books, Vital Spark and The Colonel’s Ducks at Oakhaven and playing with the Leprechaun wasn’t too bad but the sequel to Miss Kirkwood in A Land Fit for Heroes is a real struggle.
In Vital Spark the hero’s boat had been sunk under him, drowning his crew, including his daughter, he’d been beaten up and someone wanted a package, which he wanted to find before they killed him too. The Colonel wanted to get planning permission for a rest home for soldiers from war zones, would he get it? was the question. But what Miss Kirkhope wants isn’t just so clear. In the nineteen thirties, the head teachers were male, so I’m a bit stuck. Maybe a Flower Show story or even the Leprechauns is, or maybe are, a better bet.