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MY REVIEW:
Genre | Tropes: Historical Fiction, Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5 ⭐
The perfect historical cozy mystery! Amelia is a widow running her late husband’s household along with her late husband’s strict Aunt Tabitha. Amelia’s mother and younger sister, Madge, show up unannounced saying that Madge wants to have a season. It’s all very suspicious until Amelia learns that her tough sister hurt a man’s arm in their small home town and now she’s the talk of the town. What she needs is a new setting where no one knows of her transgressions. But during a debut ball for Madge, in Amelia’s home, someone already knows and makes a spectacle of Madge.
Then everything kind of breaks loose from there with a deceased party guest and missing jewels from Aunt Tabitha’s jewelry box. A perfect blend of who-dunnit feels in a historical setting. I love these kinds of stories where you’re trying to figure out exactly who is the guilty party and how did everything transpire. Not to mention that Amelia is an astounding character. She’s charming, witty, and while she’s well behaved in company she also is a fiery one. Especially when it comes to her attraction to her late husband’s best friend, Simon.
There are elements of romance within the story between Amelia and Simon as they try to navigate their confusing feelings for one another and attempt to avoid dishonoring Amelia’s late husband. But the mystery elements are so fun to follow as well! It took me a while to figure out exactly where it was going and I enjoyed every minute of it!
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Join Countess turned advice columnist Amelia Amesbury as she tries to juggle a new Season and a new murder in this charmingly deadly historical mystery.
“A beautiful debutante, a wealthy widow, and a dead would-be baron. What could be more exciting?”
Countess by day, secret advice columnist by night, Amelia Amesbury has life happily balanced on a quill’s edge . . . until her sister Margaret shows up in London under a blanket of scandal and Amelia is catapulted out of mourning and into the ton’s unforgiving Season.
However Madge’s Season debut is marred by a rather inconvenient death at the dining table as the infamous Mr Radcliffe takes ill and is later confirmed dead by poisoning. With Madge being the last person to have cross words with the soon-to-be baron, the ton’s gossip mill – and the police – are looking to pin the murder on her.
Adding to the ton’s troubles is a jewellery thief targeting the most lavish of Society’s houses. Is the murderer and the thief one in the same? It falls to Amelia once again to uncover the secrets buried deep within the pages before her sister goes down for the crimes.
Perfect for fans of witty historical mystery and Regency romances with a similar feel to Verity Bright and T.E. Kinsey
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Winters
Mary Winters is the author of the Lady of Letters historical mystery series, two cozy mystery series, and several short stories. A longtime reader of historical fiction, Mary set her latest work in Victorian England after being inspired by a trip to London. Since then, she’s been busily planning her next mystery – and another trip!
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