This second installment in the Lady Julia series was more comfortable a read in many ways than the first, Silent in the Grave. But that owes as much to the circumstances of this book as it does to where Julia herself is at on a personal level. In the first book she is reeling from her husband's deat...
I have never read a series where I felt more like the whole series could have been read all through as one (huge, though it would be) book. The chemistry didn't falter and the characters didn't lose ANY of their appeal in this sequel, which so often happens in series.The mysteries are good--sometime...
The second in the Silent in (the Grave & the Moor) series, which find heroine Lady Julia Grey in the most unusual of circumstances. Enjoyed Sanctuary even more than Grave , as Julia seemed to come into her own more, and was able to try to take control over her own life and choices, rather than jus...
Our first-person narrator and part-time detective is an independent young Victorian woman of ample means in a large and eccentric family. I read this book, apparently the second in a series, over the course of a couple of evenings when I was stuck for reasons unspeakable in a hotel room by myself wi...
Julia and her brothers Lysander and Eglamour - Plum - are summoned home from Italy by their father, the Earl March. They arrive in time to spend Christmas at Bellmont Abbey, the family seat. However, before the festivities can begin, there is a murder. As with the previous volume, the book introduce...
Another winning effort from Ms. Raybourn. As I mentioned in my review of Silent in the Grave, I really adored Lady Julia's rather large family, so I was delighted when I realized that the bulk of the novel takes place at Lady Julia's childhood home (where everyone is snowbound and trapped, no less!)...
After the events of the previous book 'Silent in the Grave' where Lady Julia Gray helped uncover the murderer of her husband and almost lost her life in a fire, we find Julia recovering in Italy while visiting her brothers. Plum and Lysander, having been abroad for some time have rented a villa on l...
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