Second chance romance combined with an interesting dilemma

The Making of a Marquess (The Society for Single Ladies #2)
by Lynne Connolly           

Requisite amounts of the dramatics for a good read. A high society lady detective Dorothea Rowland is investigating on behalf of Childers Bank wishes the security of existing loans made to Louis Thorpe and whether he has the security to increase his loan debt. Dorothea had been on the brink of having marriage settlements drawn up with Ben, until he fell under the spell of Lady Honoria Holt. Is Ben the friend she once knew, or an imposter.? The heir Benedict Thorpe, Lord Brocklebank, the Marquess of Belstead, is seeking the truth about his inheritance before returning to America. Due to the law surrounding duals he'd been secretly hustled out of the country after a dual over implied slurs to his fiancé Lady Honoria by his cousin Louis, whom he thought he'd fatally injured. All presumed he was dead. Now the time of seven years is nearly up and his cousin Louis who'd survived, is set to have Ben declared legally dead and step into His shoes. Ben's sudden returned to England has left his cousin Louis and his wife Honoria's noses out of joint, especially as they'd been living off the estate's expectations for years.
Ben joins a house party, ironically at his country seat, Cressbrook House, where the officer from the Crown Office, Sir James Hunstone, will make a decision regarding the legitimacy of Ben's claim.
Previously he and Dorothea had been courting until Ben had fallen for Honoria. Now they need to work together to find out the truth surrounding the past events. In that process they find themselves being drawn to each other.
As it turns out their investigations become dangerous and fatal.
I thought I'd picked the culprit who engineered the whole situation early on but wasn't absolutely sure until the end.
Dorothea is interesting woman who finds love where it was once lost.
An enjoyable dip into the world of inheritance and titles, allied with an enlivening mystery and romance during the Georgian period of 1750.

A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley

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