Fast paced Interbellum years British mystery!
A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent Mystery #4) by Anna Lee Huber
An anxious call from her parents has ex British Secret Agent Verity Kent and her husband Sidney motoring down to her aunt's home in northeastern Wiltshire (well her cousin Reg's really!) to solve the problem of missing valuables and paintings, and well--ghosts! Not that Verity wanted to, but her mother can be quite persistent and Verity seems to be always trying to please her parents. The relationship with the parentals is more than a tad fraught.
Of course this will give Sidney a chance to drive full throttle in his new Pierce-Arrow, replacing the one lost in a previous investigation.
What Verity and Sidney are confronted with is a missing maid, a murdered man, and moreover, as they start to thread their way through things, a suspected link to their arch enemy Lord Ardmore. Matters escalate. Sidney and Verity are in danger along with their friend Max, the Earl of Ryde.
Chief Inspector Thoreau of Scotland Yard makes an appearance as things move forward. Verity's inner group enlarges (with an unexpected addition) thanks to her former Secret Service chief--C. They're left not only endeavoring to solve the initial problems at Verity's aunt's place but with more hazardous connections yawning before them.
I did like the way Verity interacted with her cousin Reg, blinded in action, and her empathetic sympathies and understandings of why Mrs Green had taken to drink during the war years. This from personal experience!
Another fast moving who dunnit thriller from Anna Lee Huber set in the Interbellum year of 1919, post World War I.
A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley
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An anxious call from her parents has ex British Secret Agent Verity Kent and her husband Sidney motoring down to her aunt's home in northeastern Wiltshire (well her cousin Reg's really!) to solve the problem of missing valuables and paintings, and well--ghosts! Not that Verity wanted to, but her mother can be quite persistent and Verity seems to be always trying to please her parents. The relationship with the parentals is more than a tad fraught.
Of course this will give Sidney a chance to drive full throttle in his new Pierce-Arrow, replacing the one lost in a previous investigation.
What Verity and Sidney are confronted with is a missing maid, a murdered man, and moreover, as they start to thread their way through things, a suspected link to their arch enemy Lord Ardmore. Matters escalate. Sidney and Verity are in danger along with their friend Max, the Earl of Ryde.
Chief Inspector Thoreau of Scotland Yard makes an appearance as things move forward. Verity's inner group enlarges (with an unexpected addition) thanks to her former Secret Service chief--C. They're left not only endeavoring to solve the initial problems at Verity's aunt's place but with more hazardous connections yawning before them.
I did like the way Verity interacted with her cousin Reg, blinded in action, and her empathetic sympathies and understandings of why Mrs Green had taken to drink during the war years. This from personal experience!
Another fast moving who dunnit thriller from Anna Lee Huber set in the Interbellum year of 1919, post World War I.
A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley
****
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