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Chargement... Rarer Than Goldpar Holly Newman
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Appartient à la sérieA Chance Inquiry (2)
When newlyweds Sir James and Lady Cecilia Branstoke come to console a widow on the death of her husband, they discover some things don't add up about the death of the young Lord. Worse, a man who won't state his purpose, but is obviously military, wants a carte blanche to search the dead man's library! The sheer effrontery! What begins as sympathy and concern for a troubled neighbor escalates into a mystery with reverberations at the highest level of government. Napoleon has escaped from Elba and someone has stolen a subsidy shipment meant for England's allies in their renewed war against Napoleon. The shipment, a valuable mix of gold and guns, soon pits thief against thief and ally against ally with the Branstokes in the middle! Instead of being on a blissful honeymoon, Sir James and Lady Cecilia Branstoke find themselves dodging knives, fires, and pistols as they search for the missing baronet and the stolen subsidies. Maybe they should have traveled to the highlands for their honeymoon, as they'd told their friends had been their intention. Contains mature themes. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Newly weds Sir James Branstoke and his bride, Lady Cecilia have changed their honeymoon plans and travelled into Kent to Summerworth Park, an estate Sir James had recently purchased from his cousin.
Ensconced with their plans for refurbishment, they definitely didn’t expect to become involved in a missing, presumed dead, neighbor and acquaintance, Baron Aldrich. Nor did they foresee they’d be assisting the dead lord’s wife, Lady Elinor, with investigating the matter. Furthermore they had no notion they’d be falling down the proverbial rabbit-hole of dangerous coincidences and mis-directions.
Intrigue indeed! Havey-cavey happenings at the inn where they’re staying, near where Aldrich’s coach has fallen off a cliff! Cecelia and Elinor are nearly robbed by an intruder in the dead of night, possibly after a letter Elinor received from Aldrich. Then they’re accosted by a rigid, sanctimonious military person, one Captain Andrew Melville. There’s rumors of stolen gold and weapons, and at the center might be the secretive fanatical spymaster, Lord Candelstone. If it’s him, he’s as usual spinning threads on his intelligence web, leaving his agents dangerously isolated, without known support. Indeed using them carelessly, more as cannon fodder, as pawns on a chessboard, rather than valued operatives to be protected and supported where possible.
I gather James and Cecelia had a perilous run in with Candlestone’s operations in an earlier novel, a situation that nearly cost Cecilia her life. (I’m definitely going to read that as the hints about how they met sound intriguing.)
I enjoyed Cecilia and James’ relationship, their understandings about each other. I particularly appreciated Cecilia’s attitudes to those who would snub Lady Elinor because she comes from a mercantile family. How Cecelia dealt with such persons was satisfying.
The story appeared to start slowly, but once I fell into the writer’s rhythm, and the breadth of the intrigue, I found myself firmly entrenched in this Regency mystery set around 1815.
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