A Most Intriguing Woman by Sarah Ferguson
My score: 4 of 5 stars
A Most Intriguing Woman is Victorian romance and is the second ebook within the collaboration between Sarah Ferguson (the Duchess Of York) and Marguerite Kaye. Though this story is definitely a stand-alone story, it additionally loosely follows on from their first ebook.
Woman Mary is the youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch (pronounced ‘Buck-Lavatory’). Beneath her quiet, well-behaved manner is a younger girl who resists the calls for of society. She’s daring and inquisitive and has qualities that make her a really perfect novice sleuth.
Colonel Trefusis is a visitor of the Duke and Duchess, however when one of many different visitors loses a worthwhile brooch he presents to assist Mary resolve the crime. They type a friendship, however Trefusis pushes Mary away when he suffers considered one of his debilitating complications.
Their paths cross a number of years later and as soon as once more they be part of forces to unravel a distinct crime.
That is a mild romance with a sub-theme of sleuthing so as to add curiosity to the story. I favored each Mary and Trefusis from the beginning and I used to be rooting for them till the very finish. There are some fascinating secondary characters and the historic notes in the back of the ebook inform us about which ones have been actual in addition to a number of different fascinating historic info.
Though I fairly favored the primary ebook written by this duo I a lot most popular this one. The novel displays the bettering power of the writing staff which brings to the desk Marguerite’s huge writing expertise within the historic romance style, with virtually sixty books in her portfolio, and the Duchess’s lifelong expertise of the aristocracy.
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From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a sweeping, romantic compulsively readable historic saga a few Duke’s daughter–the right Victorian woman–who secretly moonlights as an novice sleuth for top society’s interior circle.
Victorian London was infamous for its pickpockets. However within the nation homes of the elite, gentleman burglars, artwork thieves and con males preyed on the wealthy and titled. Rich victims–with their pleasure and repute at stake–would by no means go to the police. What they wanted was a society insider, considered one of their very own, an individual of discretion and finely tuned powers of remark, adept at navigating intrigue.
That particular person was Woman Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, the youngest little one of Queen Victoria’s shut buddies the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Bookish, fiercely clever, and a eager observer, Mary has intentionally cultivated a mousey persona that enables her to stay missed and considerably underestimated by all. It’s the right cowl for a sleuth, a task she stumbles into when attempting to help an in depth good friend throughout a home social gathering hosted by her mother and father at their stately Scottish residence, Drumlanrig Citadel.
It’s at this social gathering the place Woman Mary additionally meets Colonel Walter Trefusis, a distinguished and intensely good-looking struggle veteran. Tortured by recollections of fight, Walter, like Mary, lives a double life, with a desk job in Whitehall offering a entrance for his position within the British Intelligence Service. The 2 type an unlikely alliance to unravel a sequence of audacious crimes–and bask in a extremely charged on-off romance.
Pacy, romantic, and enjoyable, A Most Intriguing Woman paperwork one exceptional girl’s capability to be each the right woman, and a wonderfully proficient detective…and, after all, to search out love too.
The ebook might be launched in March 2023. AmazonUK | AmazonUS
