Someone is killing off the survivors of Thirtieth division!
This Side of Murder (A Verity Kent Mystery #1)
by Anna Lee Huber.
Set just after the war in England in 1919. Verity Kent's husband Sidney had been killed during action. Now the war is over the rudderless, fragile Verity has been filling her nights with mindless parties and dubious nightclubbing with the upper crust set. Verity had, "gotten rather good at avoiding [memories]. At calculating just how many rags [she] needed to dance, and how much gin [she] needed to drink so [she] could forget, and yet not be too incapacitated to perform [her] job the following morning."
Verity is lured to the engagement party of a fellow officer of Sidney's by a letter not only claiming Sidney had committed treason but that Verity had been an agent with the Secret Service, a fact few people, including her husband, knew about. The engagement/house party is on Umbersea Island. A near car crash with Verity driving Sidney's beloved "currant-red with brass fittings" Pierce-Arrow in the opening scenes introduces Max Westfield, the Earl of Ryde and sets the scene for the up coming days. In many ways this is an omen of things to come. As bodies begin to pile up, the guests find themselves trapped on the island. Verity and Max search for answers. Verity finds herself facing news from her past that stops her in her tracks. The path to the truth is torturous and confusing. Who to trust? And when things come home to roost, can Verity recover from what she discovers?
A rather slick whodunnit with a momentous twist in the tail that has no trouble conjuring the post war era and thrillers of that ilk.
I enjoyed this immensely, despite the quandary Verity finds herself in, and the confusion, indeed shock, that I and Verity are faced with. To my mind, how and where Verity will go from here becomes the greater mystery!
A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley
(Somehow this review was lost in the ether, or my doing of, but as the third Verity is about to burst forth into publication I've set in forth. Verity still remains somewhat of an enigma to me and where she goes I think is still up for grabs)
****
by Anna Lee Huber.
Set just after the war in England in 1919. Verity Kent's husband Sidney had been killed during action. Now the war is over the rudderless, fragile Verity has been filling her nights with mindless parties and dubious nightclubbing with the upper crust set. Verity had, "gotten rather good at avoiding [memories]. At calculating just how many rags [she] needed to dance, and how much gin [she] needed to drink so [she] could forget, and yet not be too incapacitated to perform [her] job the following morning."
Verity is lured to the engagement party of a fellow officer of Sidney's by a letter not only claiming Sidney had committed treason but that Verity had been an agent with the Secret Service, a fact few people, including her husband, knew about. The engagement/house party is on Umbersea Island. A near car crash with Verity driving Sidney's beloved "currant-red with brass fittings" Pierce-Arrow in the opening scenes introduces Max Westfield, the Earl of Ryde and sets the scene for the up coming days. In many ways this is an omen of things to come. As bodies begin to pile up, the guests find themselves trapped on the island. Verity and Max search for answers. Verity finds herself facing news from her past that stops her in her tracks. The path to the truth is torturous and confusing. Who to trust? And when things come home to roost, can Verity recover from what she discovers?
A rather slick whodunnit with a momentous twist in the tail that has no trouble conjuring the post war era and thrillers of that ilk.
I enjoyed this immensely, despite the quandary Verity finds herself in, and the confusion, indeed shock, that I and Verity are faced with. To my mind, how and where Verity will go from here becomes the greater mystery!
A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley
(Somehow this review was lost in the ether, or my doing of, but as the third Verity is about to burst forth into publication I've set in forth. Verity still remains somewhat of an enigma to me and where she goes I think is still up for grabs)
****
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