Verity Lark, misunderstood and misconstrued!

A Lark's Conceit (Verity Lark Mysteries #3) by Lynn Messina   

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Ah Verity! A whirlwind of disguises, a master of the impossible, of quick thinking, and of supreme confidence in her own powers of deduction.

No-one really sees her except Freddie and Delphine. No-one can match her except Colson Hardwick.

We hear more of her time as a child with Freddie and Delphine, matching wits with the wicked headmistress, the Wraithe. We hear of the Dowager Duchess of Kesgrave hand in Verity’s past.  Meanwhile Verity’s still musing about her half brother, the Duke of a Kesgrave.

Verity is enjoying matching wits with Coulson, wondering what she’d do if he offered to make her his mistress. After all she is the illegitimate daughter of the great courtesan, La Reina!

Meanwhile Coulson has a target painted on his back having been reavealed as a British spy who helped bring down Napoleon. The French immigrants in England are many. Anyone amongst them could be a threat. 

How to flush them out, particularly as someone attempted to kidnap Verity out of her bedroom! More fool them! Then we find that Colson has had a number of attempts on his life. All evidence and supposition leads to the French Embassy, more so when Verity narrowly misses being hit by a plummeting body from a window there.

Suicide … or murder!

Verity has her hands full and her feelings disrupted with this investigation, Colson’s puzzling overtures, and Kesgrave’s attention. And then there’s the Dower Duchess! What a to do!

I had my hands full, gasping out loud, sudden fits of laughter, and struck by Verity’s supreme shortsightedness where Colson is concerned.

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Many thanks to the author and publisher.