The latest mystery from the national bestselling author of A Study in Death tangles Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage in a dangerous web of religious and political intrigue.
June 1831. In the midst of their idyllic honeymoon in England's Lake District, Kiera and Gage's seclusion is soon interrupted by a missive from her new father-in-law. A deadly incident involving a distant relative of the Duke of Wellington has taken place at an abbey south of Dublin, Ireland, and he insists that Kiera and Gage look into the matter.
Intent on discovering what kind of monster could murder a woman of the cloth, the couple travel to Rathfarnham Abbey school. Soon a second nun is slain in broad daylight near a classroom full of young girls. With the sinful killer growing bolder, the mother superior would like to send the students home, but the growing civil unrest in Ireland would make the journey treacherous.
Before long, Kiera starts to suspect that some of the girls may be hiding a sinister secret. With the killer poised to strike yet again, Kiera and Gage must make haste and unmask the fiend, before their matrimonial bliss comes to an untimely end...
My Review:
Yeah! It was so freaking great to read this book! It's the first book in which they're married after all, and that puts a new spin on their investigations, because they have to work out what protectiveness they're going to have for each other. Oh, and Kiera has motherhood worries as well. Just so great to read!
This mystery, oh! I had no idea where it would go, and we'd get a clue that would lead one place, and then learn so much more, that sometimes conflicted with what we'd previously learned. It was hard to know what to trust, and what had be manufactured for their benefit! It didn't help that there were so many secrets being kept! Like, one after the other after another!
A big part of this book is the politics of the time and place. Because Ireland at the time, if this book was researched and represented correctly, as I should hope it should be, was pretty intense. And that the first victim was a recent convert to Catholicism, gave them a starting point for the investigation.
The thing about this mystery, is that they weren't sure it was murder. But then another nun is murdered, which clears up some things, but complicates others. It was a pretty excellent mystery! Really enjoyed how they figured it all out!
Loved reading this book so much, and I can't wait to read more!
Author: Anna Lee Huber
Series: Lady Darby #5
Read: August 24th, 2019
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Really enjoying this series and her writing! And it's a Historical Fiction 2019 Book and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2019 Book!
Publisher: Berkley
Published: July 5th 2016
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