by Tasha Alexander
Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves travel by the Oriental Express to Istanbul, they attend an opera in the Sultans court and afterwards one of his concubines is found dead. She's the long-lost daughter of one of the British Diplomats and this sets off a cascade that Emily and Colin have to investigate....
Even before Emily steps off the Orient Express in beautiful and decadent Constantinople, she's embroiled in intrigue and treachery. The brutal death of a concubine in the sultan's palace allows her first foray into investigating a crime as an official agent of the British Empire--because only a woma...
I was tempted to give another 3.5 stars to this book, but I think personal bias might be getting in the way on this one, so I'll err on the side of optimism. The whole of this book takes place in Constantinople, during Lady Emily's honeymoon. They become embroiled in a murder investigation that i...
Decent mystery, lots of intriguing things going on with the heroine's relationship with her new husband, independence, pregnancy, societal expectations, and desire (or lack thereof) for children, and some of the Turkish women were interesting. However. There's not enough chops here to tackle "rescui...
Oh my... what a bittersweet book! I'm anxious to get to #5 to see how we go from here. Will Lady Emily ever be able to conceive, bear a child to full-term, and have a healthy birth where both mother & child recover and live?As amazing as this book is, I alternated between frustration and anger at Em...
WARNING! CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS FOR A FATAL WALTZ, THE THIRD LADY EMILY MYSTERY!Lady Emily Hargreaves, formerly Ashton, is on her honeymoon with her beloved husband, Colin. Having earned the disappointment of both Lady Emily's formidable mother and Queen Victoria herself after eloping to Greece to ...
This is the first book of this series I've actually reviewed since I read the others before joining Goodreads, but that hasn't stopped me from recommending them all over the place! I'm just glad to finally be able to review one with events fresh on my mind.In this book more than the others, Emily re...
I was halfway through this book and afraid of what my review was going to be, but the second half redeemed the story. There is only so much lovely dovey stuff I can take without upchucking my dinner, but eventually the action picked up. Admittingly, I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous two inst...
(I don't think I mention anything spoilerish here, but I'm hiding my review behind a spoiler cut just to be safe.) I think that somewhere in the back of my mind that I had decided that this book would receive an extra star in my rating no matter what I thought of it based solely on the fact that I...
Started 11-8-09. I thought about 3 stars, but decided not. I was bored by much of it. Sigh.
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