The adventure continues!
Revenge of the Barbary Ghost (Lady Anne Addison Mysteries #2) by Victoria Hamilton
Lady Anne Addison's heartfelt confusion, her refusal of marriage to the enigmatic and attractive Marquess of Darkefell continues, peppered with the chasing down of smugglers and murderers in a crumbling manor atop the Cornish cliffs. A house with the perfect smuggler's bay at the foot of its cliffs.
I'm agog at where Anne's indecision, or maybe yes her decisiveness, will take her.
Anne flees Darkefell's attentions to join her dear friends Pamela and Marcus St. James, at their rented house on the Barbary Coast. An "effervescent brother and sister, [they have been] friends since Anne’s disastrous Season many years before."
However there's another mystery brewing! And the endings all atremble with it!
A ghostly figure rises up out of the mists just as smugglers are landing their goods and the excise men are surrounding the beach landing area. Anne is an unintentional witness to the action.
Anne suspects the apparition has a clear scientific basis. She brings her investigative powers to bear, joined as it happens, by the Marquess of Darkefell who has pursued her to Cornwall.
Murder, mystery and romance move hand in hand as Anne struggles with her feelings for Darkefell and her wish for independence, all the while investigating a murder that will once again harken back to Darkefell's past.
This tale was originally published by Donna Lea Simpson. It has been updated and republished under Simpson's pseudonym, Victoria Hamilton.
A Beyond the Page Publications ARC via NetGalley
*****
I'm agog at where Anne's indecision, or maybe yes her decisiveness, will take her.
Anne flees Darkefell's attentions to join her dear friends Pamela and Marcus St. James, at their rented house on the Barbary Coast. An "effervescent brother and sister, [they have been] friends since Anne’s disastrous Season many years before."
However there's another mystery brewing! And the endings all atremble with it!
A ghostly figure rises up out of the mists just as smugglers are landing their goods and the excise men are surrounding the beach landing area. Anne is an unintentional witness to the action.
Anne suspects the apparition has a clear scientific basis. She brings her investigative powers to bear, joined as it happens, by the Marquess of Darkefell who has pursued her to Cornwall.
Murder, mystery and romance move hand in hand as Anne struggles with her feelings for Darkefell and her wish for independence, all the while investigating a murder that will once again harken back to Darkefell's past.
This tale was originally published by Donna Lea Simpson. It has been updated and republished under Simpson's pseudonym, Victoria Hamilton.
A Beyond the Page Publications ARC via NetGalley
*****
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