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My Review (5*)
I loved the first instalment in this cozy historical mystery series, and I loved this one as it’s a gripping and well written story.
It’s a well written story that kept me turning pages as it’s gripping and highly entertaining.
Lily is a strong heroine, clever and strong willed. She face the prejudice of her age towards clever woman and she’s not afraid to speak her mind or to challenge the convention of Regency time and of the Ton.
Women were expected to act ladylike and not be involved in murder investigation.
I love how she cares for her independence and how she manages her life.
The cast of characters is well thought and likeable. Both Simon Page and Luke Harley are interesting characters as they both have to face prejudices.
Simon is middle class and he has to relate to Ton people during his investigation. The class prejudice is strong and Lily is a sort of proxy helping with people who despise him. Jack is a likeable and fleshed out characters, half Indian he has to face racial prejudice.
The mystery is solid, full of twists and turns. There’s plenty of suspects, red herrings and I was able to guess who did it but not how.
One of my pet peeves are love triangle and there won’t be one in this story.
I strongly recommend it.
Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books, Katharine Schellman, Partners in Crime and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
Synopsis:
Regency widow Lily Adler has finally settled into her new London life when her semi-estranged father arrives unexpectedly, intending to stay with her while he recovers from an illness. Hounded by his disapproval, Lily is drawn into spending time with Lady Wyatt, the new wife of an old family friend. Lily barely knows Lady Wyatt. But she and her husband, Sir Charles, seem as happy as any newly married couple until the morning Lily arrives to find the house in an uproar and Sir Charles dead.
All signs indicate that he tripped and struck his head late at night. But when Bow Street constable Simon Page is called to the scene, he suspects foul play. And it isn’t long before Lily stumbles on evidence that Sir Charles was, indeed, murdered.
Mr. Page was there when Lily caught her first murderer, and he trusts her insight into the world of London’s upper class. With the help of Captain Jack Hartley, they piece together the reasons that Sir Charles’s family might have wanted him dead. But anyone who might have profited from the old man’s death seems to have an alibi… until Lily receives a mysterious summons to speak with one of the Wyatts’ maids, only to find the young woman dead when she arrives.
Mr. Page believes the surviving family members are hiding the key to the death of both Sir Charles and the maid. To uncover the truth, Lily must convince the father who doesn’t trust or respect her to help catch his friend’s killer before anyone else in the Wyatt household dies
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The Author:
Katharine Schellman is a former actor, one-time political consultant, and currently the author of the Lily Adler Mysteries. A graduate of the College of William & Mary, Katharine currently lives and writes in the mountains of Virginia in the company of her family and the many houseplants she keeps accidentally murdering.
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