by Ashley Gardner
The cover I have features a semi-naked girl and while she appears in the story it would have been better to have had Captain Lacey on it. Missing women cause him to investigate. Interesting start to a series, shows promise.
The Hanover Square Affair by Ashley Gardner Book 1 of Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries My TBR List -- July Winner!See Other My TBR List Reviews @ Because Reading London, 1816 Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his care...
Kind of an insubstantial read for me. The mystery didn't really hook me too grandly, I felt we weren't given enough of Lacey to get to know him well, and the various reveals towards the end felt a little bit clunky and rushed. I liked Grenville, though. A nice filler read, but not something I co...
I actually bought this book all the way back on 8/28/11. It was free when I grabbed out, & is still free - I think that the author has somehow gotten it to permafree status in an effort to interest readers in the Captain Lacey mystery series. Historical mysteries are one of my personal reading kry...
I was very pleased-the story kept me entranced from page 1. This was my first book by Gardner & I kept putting it off bc I was honestly not expecting it to be good only because I know she writes what look like corny love stories to me, but I havent actually read them. Anyways, I was actually pleasan...
I liked it, but it didn't pull me in the way I wanted it to. I'm not sure I will continue with the series since I have so many other historical mystery series I'm reading right now that I actually enjoy even more.
I was quite impressed with this first novel. Captain Lacey is a genuinely honorable protagonist--sometimes /too/ honorable, which gets him into no end of trouble. I enjoyed seeing the seedier side of London in the Regency area. Lacey isn't rich, far from it. His time in the Napoleonic War hasn't don...
The Captain Lacey series takes place post-Waterloo, where Napoleon finally met his downfall. Lacey is a retired soldier; he wasn't at Waterloo, but he fought in the Peninsular wars on the Iberian peninsula in Spain. Lacey tends towards melancholia and has had a difficult life, both in and out of war...
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