Murder at Kensington Palace (A Wrexford and Sloane Mystery): 3

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Then moments after she does so, when she is rescued, the only comment made about her bizarre attire is an observation by a cop that she is wearing men’s boots. The last half of each book, in particular, follows a very predictable train of events that was fairly tiring to retread once again here. Their investigation leads them on a dangerous chase through Mayfair’s glittering ballrooms and opulent drawing rooms, where gossip and rumors swirl to confuse the facts.

Kensington Gardens‘ mystery centres on the murder of Charlotte’s beloved childhood cousin, Cedric, Lord Chittenden; the accused, his twin brother, Nicholas Locke. Their investigation leads them on a dangerous chase through Mayfair's glittering ballrooms and opulent drawing rooms, where gossip and rumors swirl to confuse the facts. Charlotte is a widow, who had run away to Italy with her art instructor and left her aristocratic family behind. Rather than a couple getting together, the couple in this series (Amory and Milo) are working on repairing their marriage. It's fine for the author to tell us how brilliant she is, but when all we see is her acting like a numbskull, it becomes both unbelievable and annoying.Both feature amateur detectives who are aristocrats, working with female partners with whom they have tension-filled relationships. As the narrative builds, Wrexford and Charlotte’s slow-burn romance flickers and flares, teasing the reader and making her yearn for more.

I don't think they belong in regency era vocabulary, but it was not enough to spoil the flow of the story. Charlotte lives with Wrexford’s blunt-tongued, knife-wielding cook, McClellan, and two adopted, adorable, hilarious street urchins, Raven and Hawk, aka Thomas Ravenwood Sloane and Alexander Hawksley Sloane, and affectionately dubbed “the Weasels” by Wrexford. The historical aspects of the story are intriguing as London is on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution.

But there’s no evidence for Nick Locke’s innocence, while the evidence for his guilt is both gruesome and damning. Penrose reveals intriguing new aspects of her protagonists’ characters and relationship in a story linked to the era’s technological and social changes. I will agree that the climactic scene was straight from the Grade B Saturday Matinee ‘Mad Scientist’ movies. Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible. in Graphic Design, Andrea fell in love with Regency England after reading Pride and Prejudice and has maintained a fascination with the era's swirling silks and radical new ideas throughout her writing career.

The relationship between Wrexford and Charlotte is further developed in this book, and I am looking forward to seeing where it leads next. Published internationally in ten languages, she is a three-time RITA Award finalist and the recipient of numerous writing awards, including two Daphne Du Maurier Awards for Historical Mystery and two Gold Leaf Awards. All the red herrings in this one, and there were many, had been electrocuted or charred to a crisp before presentation, making the solution seem just that much farther out of reach.James loves recording audiobooks and is delighted to have had the opportunity to narrate such a variety of magnificent authors, from Seneca through Max Hastings and Antony Beevor, to superlative fiction by J. Ms Penrose likes to switch the narrative from Wrexford to Sloane in the same chapter; this didn’t present well on Audible but was great just reading the text. We spend VAST amounts of time listening to her being a complete and utter idiot about Wrexford and his motivations, on and on and on and ON, and I have simply had enough of her.

It turns out the ending of book two meant nothing, and we are back to Charlotte being insecure, dishonest, rude, ungrateful, and vastly annoying with regard to Wrexford all over again in book three.I’m getting through Spencer-Fleming’s All Mortal Flesh and the volumes that follow in anticipation of a long-awaited new book in the series. Her faithful friend the Earl of Wrexford is there to help her along with her two friends known as the weasels who have found their home with Sloane.