Lady Emily Mysteries: A Poisoned Season (Series #2) (Hardcover)

from clue

I throughly enjoyed this second book in the Lady Ashton series. The main character is very likeable and the story, involving stolen antiquities and murder, is interesting. In fact, I think this is the best of the two book series. I'll be reading number three when it comes out.

from DWWilkin

Expanding on the first, we have a women who is walking the line between member of society and bluestocking and trying to craft our modern ideals of what a women is now, onto what a women was in the 1890s. A fine line that I think Ms. Alexander doesn't always hold well to, but fails more than she ...

from Lauren2013

A Poisoned Season4 StarsEmily's sleuthing abilities as well as the development of her relationship with Colin Hargreaves are both significantly improved in this installment. The mystery revolving around the theft of several artifacts related to Marie Antionette and the subsequent murder of the ow...

from wagner.sarah35

Tasha Alexander's second historical mystery featuring Lady Emily lives up to the promise of this series. Lady Emily, a wealthy nineteenth-century widow, becomes quickly embroiled in scandal and a mystery surrounding a pretender to the French throne and Marie Antoinette's jewels. The persistent Em...

from Alie

I very much enjoyed this book. I love suspense and historical fiction, and this book (and series) combines those two, creating excellent page-turning reads. Lady Emily is a wonderful, forward thinking, stubborn character that one can't help adore. In "A Poisoned Season" as well as "And Only to De...