Mysterious times at 1812 Lake Windermere!

The Wordsworth Key (Regency Secrets #3) by Julia Golding                 

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Dora Fitz-Pennington (actress) and Dr. Jacob Sandys (son of a peer), what a great pair! Their enquiry agency is coming along nicely. Dora and Jacob have taken some time off at Windermere Lake. A place alive with poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge amongst others. Somehow Wordsworth’s opus works has been taken. Dora and Jacob have been asked by his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, to quietly investigate.

Jacob though is called home belatedly by his brother Arthur to his father’s burial. Things are not sitting well in that quarter. The new Viscount it seems is a stubborn, unforgiving prig, wanting to bend his family to his will. Women have their place and Dora is definitely ‘out of place.’

Meanwhile a body with a shepherd’s  crook thrust thru it is found in the Thames River, attached to a rope from the quayside. Alex Smith, associate of Dora and Jacob’s detective agency, takes a look and finds it imperative to let Jacob know what’s happening.

It seems all roads lead to the Lake District and that’s not a good sign.

I loved the exploits and youthful curiosity of two young Coleridge boys btw.

An excellent historical mystery / romance!

A One More Chapter ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.