Tears of Pearl
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616854041 (1616854049)
Publish date: September 1st 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Lady Emily (#4)
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...
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