Week 47 Reviews: A Resolution at Midnight, A Secret Never Told

From Goodreads:

Miss Fisher meets Downton Abbey in this critically acclaimed mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble.

Roasted chestnuts from vendor's carts, fresh cut spruce trees lining the sidewalks, extravagant gifts, opulent dinners, carols at St Patrick's Cathedral, a warm meal and a few minutes shelter from the cold at one of the charitable food lines . . .

It's Christmas in Gilded Age Manhattan.

And for the first time ever an amazing giant ball will drop along a rod on the roof of the New York Times building to ring in the New Year. Everyone plans to attend the event.

But the murder of a prominent newsman hits a little too close to home. And when a young newspaper woman, a protégé of the great Jacob Riis and old Vassar school chum of Bev's, is the target of a similar attack, it is clear this is not just a single act of violence but a conspiracy of malicious proportions. Really, you'd think murderers would take a holiday.

Something absolutely must be done. And Lady Dunbridge is happy to oblige in A Resolution at Midnight, the third book in this best selling series.

From Goodreads:

Philomena Amesbury, expatriate Countess of Dunbridge, is bored. Coney Island in the sweltering summer of 1908 offers no shortage of diversions for a young woman of means, but sea bathing, horse racing, and even amusement parks can't hold a candle to uncovering dastardly plots and chasing villains. Lady Dunbridge hadn't had a big challenge in months.

Fate obliges when Phil is called upon to host a dinner party in honor of a visiting Austrian psychologist whose revolutionary theories may be of interest to the War Department, not to mention various foreign powers, and who may have already survived one attempt on his life. The guest list includes a wealthy industrialist, various rival scientists and academics, a party hypnotist, a flamboyant party-crasher, and a damaged beauty whose cloudy psyche is lost in a world of its own. Before the night is out, one of the guests is dead with a bullet between the eyes and Phil finds herself with another mystery on her hands, even if it's unclear who exactly the intended victim was meant to be.

Worse yet, the police's prime suspect is a mystery man who Phil happens to be rather intimately acquainted with. Now it's up to Lady Dunbridge, with the invaluable assistance of her intrepid butler and lady's maid, to find the real culprit before the police nab the wrong one . . .

My Review:
I loved reading these books! I'm enjoy watching Phil and her gang investigate these mysteries, that always contain a murder! But more than that goes on in these books, there's blackmail and there's political machinations, and it all comes together in really great stories! 

I forgot most of the synopsis going into A Resolution at Midnight. But I am glad that I read it when I did, because Christmas and the New Year are coming up, which is right around the time when this book is set (though over 100 years in the past!)

A Resolution at Midnight was really entertaining to read, what with the whole conspiracy and all. Just how far it goes, well, that made things all the more important, and the more care that they had to take. I couldn't wait to see them take down the bad guys! 

Oh, a Secret Never told was such an entertaining mystery. There's Dr. Erik Voegler, who might have a threat against his life. And there's Georgie, who was threatening them before she ended up being killed. But the fact that she might not be the intended victim was a delicious complication! I loved watching it play out! 

These were really great reads, and I can't wait to continue the series! 

Author: Shelley Noble
Series: Lady Dunbridge Mystery #3, 4
Read: November 20th, 21st, 2021
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded good and I enjoyed the first two books, and they're a Historical Fiction 2021 Books and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Books! And A Secret Never Told is a WoW Book!
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: October 13th 2020, November 16th 2021

A Resolution at Midnight:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

A Secret Never Told: 

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars