Suspicious happenings!

A Whisper at Midnight (Raven and Wren #2) by Darcy Burke  

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Private Investigator Miss Matilda Wren and Hadrian Becket, the Earl of Ravenhurst are once more up to their eyeballs in intrigue. Raven’s ex fiancé’s husband has been murdered. Stabbed in his bed.

Raven is a suspect. Apparently Louis Chambers hated him! Why? Raven can’t fathom it. After all Louis had married Beryl when Raven found them in a compromising situation.

Coincidently, after three years, Beryl had written and asked Raven for his help?

From the outside it looks as if Raven is a suspect. However the list becomes longer when it’s discovered Louise had tarried with a number of women including his own domestics.

As it is, Tilda is also involved as Beryl has just hired her to investigate Chambers and some stolen heirloom jewellery. Beryl’s seeking a divorce from Chambers. Various twists on this also come to light!

Add to this Raven’s mysterious gift of touching someone or something inducing visions (and headaches) and we have a complex and fascinating inquiry. 

As a further shock, it’s been uncovered that Chambers was also being poisoned. Who is the culprit? More than one person had reason to detest Chambers, and a motive to kill.

A newly promoted Detective Inspector Teague is running the investigation. An honest  policeman and a friend, but friendship won’t stand in the way of him doing his duty.

Another suspenseful mystery Wren and Raven are involved in. (Although despite the twists, I had deduced early in the piece who the murderer could be. However it’s the getting there that’s exciting.) 

That’s not all that occupied the two. Raven is increasingly attracted to Wren, and Wren is increasingly agitated by the attraction and fighting it. Apart from the difference in their stations, marriage is not for Wren! Her independence and career as a Private Investigator is too important!

A great follow up to A Whisper of Death!

(I do feel one needs to read the first in the series to get the full impact of the story.)

An Oliver Herber ARC via Booksprout                                         

Many thanks to the author and publisher.