by Charles Todd, Rosalyn Landor
I'd forgotten my love/hate relationship with this one. I still love Bess (mostly, more below) as well as most of the book. The mystery is actually really interesting and the clues are there but very hard to find. Sadly, we see little of her family though. Simon makes a few great appearances as if ...
Bess Crawford is on leave from the front when she stumbles over a woman outside her house. She takes pity on her and learns that the women has been struck by her husband and has fled to London. She slowly gain the woman's trust and learns that her name is Lydia and that her husband's name is Roger. ...
Though I love all of Charles Todd's novels, this one is weaker than the others. The characters don't really jump off the page as realistic and Bess's actions don't seem in keeping with her normally strong-willed character. That said, I do love that we have a lot more Bess Crawford novels to choose f...
As usual, I enjoyed Rosalyn Landor's excellent narration of this audiobook. She is a talented narrator who is able to really give distinct voices to each character she reads. I enjoy listening to the audiobooks that she narrates.What I like about the Bess Crawford mysteries is that they are set ag...
I feel bad rating this so low because I feel that I did myself a disservice by starting this series with the third installment. In my defense though, I didn't even know this was the third in a series. The author did do a bit of an overview but not enough for it to make complete sense to me and left ...
It should be noted that I won this in a Goodreads giveaway.I am going to keep this short as I don't have much of a reaction to this book. Overall, I was disappointed with this book. It had a lot of promise, but it fell short in the end. The "twist" is hardly that. It's not a book I would read aga...
An enjoyable mystery well-anchored in the historical period. Works very well as a stand-alone, though it is the third in a series. I won a free copy in a GoodReads First Reads giveaway.
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