Lady Emily Mysteries: Behind the Shattered Glass : A Lady Emily Mystery (Series #8) (Paperback)

from kaulsu

Finally! An author to compete with [Georgette Heyer]! No, the period is not the same...Alexander has moved beyond the Regency to the end of the Victorian period, but the humor with which she writes is very much reminiscent. This book, evidently not the first in the series dealing with Lady Emily ...

from aya.herron

Lady Emily is just settling into married life and enjoying being a new mom, when the peace of country estate life is shattered by a murder. On a warm autumn evening the new Marquess of Montagu, Archibald Scolfield, staggered through the French doors and died on the library floor. The family is st...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

There are two intertwining stories to this book: Lady Emily & Colin Hargreaves have refused an invitation to the neighboring Estate's festivities, preferring to stay home in the peace & quite of their drawing room.... When all of a sudden the owner of the neighboring estate staggers in through th...

from jamespurcell

Busy and lively look at the very wealthy as crime solvers and societal reformists in the Victorian Era. Need to go to London; order a private train, why not? Dislike a girl's school, buy it and start anew, why not? Almost a Gates Foundation outlook for public problem solving. Interesting characte...

from KateBaxter

I could not put this book down! Suspenseful, intriguing and a well thought-out glimpse into the lives of the haves and have-nots of Victorian England. It's an upstairs/downstairs world at English country estate, Anglemore Park. Just as another day is coming to an end so too the life of Archibald ...