Dido Kent Mysteries: A Place of Confinement (Hardcover)

from Auntie-Nanuuq

This was the first in this series that I've ever read.... book 4. I've never been interested in this series, but when this came in the summary sounded interesting.Miss Dido Kent is a spinster living w/ her brother & sister-in-law....who wants her to wed the widowed preacher. The preacher has "A p...

from quiBee

This was an enjoyable read set in Regency England, the fourth book in the Dido Kent series.Part of it is set out in letters from Dido to her sister. She has been sent to attend to an elderly, wealthy aunt in the hopes that the aunt will settle some money on her so Dido can help her family. When t...

from pierthinker

My expectations were low for this book, with visions of sub-sub-Austen-esque prattle. How wrong I was! Clearly set in the Austen world and addressing many of the same set of moral choices and decisions, Anna Dean has produced a first-rate mystery that cleaves rather well to the Austen manner. Dep...

from dieseltaylor

A splendid climax to the four books, each self-contained but with the same acid-tongued heroine. I normally can read a book at a page a minute but these books require a slower read to avoid missing the clues and the sly comments. A marvelous melange of Jane Austen type barbs and good complex myst...

from dieseltaylor

A splendid climax to the four books, each self-contained but with the same acid-tongued heroine. I normally can read a book at a page a minute but these books require a slower read to avoid missing the clues and the sly comments. A marvelous melange of Jane Austen type barbs and good complex myst...