Murder at Kensington Palace (A Wrexford and Sloane Mystery): 3

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Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.

J. Quill, has been a constant state of affairs for Wrex since the moment they met in Murder on Black Swan Lane. Penrose reveals intriguing new aspects of her protagonists’ characters and relationship in a story linked to the era’s technological and social changes. A Regency lady with a hidden past joins forces with an irritable aristocrat to solve a dastardly series of crimes. And thank you for the rec … I don’t need another one … but it sounds great and I LOVE marriage-in-trouble stories. I have also listened to the audiobooks of this series (borrowed from the library), and they are excellent.

Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Miss Bates Reads Romance with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Note: “The earl settled himself on the sofa, all well-tailored broad shoulders and long-legged elegance. teaching them to draw, muttering motherly threats about “no jam tarts,” which McLennan affectionately bakes for them, hugging them and giving them a world of love and care and knowledge where they had none).

Charlotte is certain that this accusation is as false as the one that brought Wrexford to her door in the first book in this series. Though she finds the brooding scientist just as enigmatic and intense as ever, their partnership is now marked by an unfamiliar tension that seems to complicate every encounter. It’s maybe 12 for Raven and 10 for Hawk and they are Oliver Twisting by night and learning Latin by day. I do find at times Lady Charlotte is an odd adoptive parent as she has the boys taking lessons and dressing properly but often lets them run the London streets in the middle of the night to do her errands. Charlotte Sloane, a widow living in genteel poverty who makes ends at least wave at each other by penning satirical drawings and publishing them under the nom-de-plume A.

Rating 7: An all too familiar chain of events really crippled a story that once again had a good mystery at its heart. Penrose deftly combines a Regency romance with a tricky mystery that delves into social unrest and the darker side of this storied period. J. Quill is safe with the Earl of Wrexford, she’s ill prepared for the rippling effects sharing the truth about her background has cast over their relationship. But when her cousin is murdered and his twin brother is accused of the gruesome crime, Charlotte immediately turns to Wrexford for help in proving the young man's innocence. In fact, it’s so close to home – her past home if not her present one – that when Wrex informs her that the recently elevated Lord Chittenden is dead, she performs the only quintessential female act he’s ever seen her do.

Penrose reveals intriguing new aspects of her protagonists' characters and relationship in a story linked to the era's technological and social changes.This narrator clips every word individually so that it is very difficult to inject any humanity into the characters.

I don't think they belong in regency era vocabulary, but it was not enough to spoil the flow of the story.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Alongside the darkness the background romance between the two main characters continues to take two steps forward and one step back. Their investigation leads them on a dangerous chase through Mayfair’s glittering ballrooms and opulent drawing rooms, where gossip and rumors swirl to confuse the facts. In the meanwhile, Devlin expiates his demons, many but not all of which he acquired while serving in France during the Napoleonic Wars, by solving murders – generally the kind of murders that no one in the halls of power want solved. Not sure why the hero, a man of quick mind and temper should be gifted with such a ponderously slow voice.