by Carola Dunn
On this second outing with the Hon. Daisy Dalrymple I have to wonder if she'll start to be a Jessica Fletcher-esque harbinger of doom for people she visits which could be problematic for her job of photographing and documenting some of the stately homes in England. The beginning implies that there ...
This review pertains to the audio version of The Winter Garden Mystery. I bought the book not knowing it was the 2nd of the series so I put off listening to it until after I listen to the 1st (Death at Wentwater Court). Had I bought that book before this one, the Winter Garden Mystery would not have...
3-3.5 starsThe 2nd Daisy Dalrymple has Daisy off to Occles House, where a sporty schoolchum, Bobbie (Roberta) lives with her brother Sebastian, her horror of a mother Lady Valeria, and her dairy-occupied father. Lady Valeria runs the small village, Occleswich, like an iron-maiden. And she coddles Se...
3.5 stars
The Honorable Daisy Dalyrymple is visiting an old school chum while writing about her ancestral home when a body is discovered in the garden. Although the local police are happy to pin the housemaid's murder on her young foreign swain, Daisy has doubts. She calls in her childhood friend Philip Pet...
Loved this one as well. Well written, fast-paced and highly entertaining. I'm thoroughly enjoying the budding relationship between Daisy and Alec and feel it's progressing at a natural rate; neither too quickly nor too slowly. I also liked Philip much better this time around; I found him to be a b...