by Carola Dunn
This reminded me of a lot of the interwar stuff I like reading.Daisy Dalrymple gets caught up in a murder mystery when she goes to photograph a stately home for a magazine in her quest to find a job. While doing this she encounters an interesting detective and finds that everything isn't always str...
This lighthearted Downton Abbey era 1920’s mystery totally charmed me. Daisy Dalrymple comes from a titled family, but after her brother was killed in the Great War and her father died in the flu epidemic their estate passed to a distant relative (shades of Jane Austen!) leaving the remaining female...
Reading this book was pure, unmitigated pleasure. Although it is the first novel of the series, it’s not the first Daisy Dalrymple mystery I’ve read. I have already read several others in no particular order and I have to admit: I enjoyed them all. I love the lead characters, I love the setting – En...
Fun book! I think I've found a new set of enjoyable mysteries to read!The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple is a twenty-something daughter of a viscount, but her father is dead (influenza after WWI) and her brother died serving in the war. Rather than be banished to the dower house, living with her mother a...
I'd probably give this 3.5 stars. It was an easy read, but I didn't get completely into it until the last few chapters, when the pace really picked up. However, the first chapter of the next book was included at the end of this one and I really enjoyed that (and, since it ended on a cliffhanger, I...
3.5 Stars
As sweet and comfortably domestic as a murder mystery can be. When the Honorable Daisy Dalyrmple visits a school chum's ancestral home to write a magazine article, she does not expect to find a roiling mess of emotions and secrets. The earl's new wife is young, beautiful, and clearly caught up in ...
I'm sure she was trying to make it "authentic," but the 20s slang seemed overdone to me. Also, maybe the character matures in later books, but I didn't really like her "well, I like that person so he/she couldn't have done it" mentality. Aren't journalists supposed to have more objectivity?
A very charming book! I found this book to be an entertaining, well written, fast-paced read that kept me guessing right up until the 'big reveal' was made. I loved the main characters of Daisy Dalrymple and Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher. I also felt that the author captured the both setting a...
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