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A case of murder most foul in high society. Bloody events in a brothel. Members of polite society world arrested... Those who love Amanda Quick’s romantic Victorian murder mysteries will revel in this delicious stew. Anthony Stalbridge doesn’t believe his fiancée Fiona drowned herself in the Thames in a so-called ‘fit of despondency’. A year later he’s doggedly hot on the trail of chief suspect Elwin Hastings, who he believes to be Fiona’s murderer, when he stumbles across evidence that the dowdy widowed Louisa Bryce is also investigating Hastings, for different reasons. So they combine their investigations, becoming a crack, quick-witted team. Louisa’s somewhat taken aback (and secretly thrilled) when Anthony makes it clear he’s become attracted to her. Passionately attracted! She thinks nothing will ever come of it, with Anthony being Society and her – not. Anthony, however, thinks otherwise. The startling plot twist at the end just adds to all the thrills and romantic spills. However, our favourite part was the first time Anthony and Louisa make love – and it’s a disaster. Poor Louisa! Poor Anthony! He spends the rest of the book trying to make sure she experiences her desired ‘transcendence’ and ‘vortex of passion’. Oh, big sigh. Great fun, particularly when the hero can crack safes and pick locks and do all sorts of other handy, heady things. And, of course, the villain is caught.
‘It occurs to me that the problem here may have been you, not me.’ (says Louisa)
‘You’re blaming your failure to achieve transcendence on me?’
‘No, no, of course not. Not entirely.’ She cleared her throat. ‘It is certainly not your fault that nature chose to overly endow certain portions of your anatomy.’ She paused, considering the subject more closely. ‘Perhaps a smaller man—’
He leaned very close.
‘Do not,’ he said, his voice ominously soft, ‘even think about it.’ |
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