A troubling acquisition!

The Elgin Conspiracy (Regency Secrets #2) by Julia Golding    

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This tale moves smartly along. A fascinating look at these times in London and an interesting plot yet for some reason I dragged my feet reading this. If I’d read the first in series parts of the story might have been more enlightening.

It seems some of the marbles are not as genuine as they’re thought to be.

Investigative partners actress Dora have been Fitz-Pennington and former army doctor Jacob Sandys have been hired by Lord Elgin to find out who murdered his assistant Richard Brookings, an expert in marbles.

Their task becomes more complicated by Greek nationalists fighting for the return of the marbles, Napoleon having designs on them, and the prospect of some of the marbles being frauds. Lord Byron is in the mix, as are others of the aristocracy.

Trouble surely follows!

The Elgin marbles! 200 years or more later and Greece is still trying to repatriate them. British high handed imperialism has a lot to answer for.

A Harper Collins UK ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.