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Indlæser... A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem (A Lady's Guide, 1) (udgave 2020)af Manda Collins (Forfatter)
Work InformationA Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem af Manda Collins
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   ) SimplyKelina | Sep 5, 2023 |  Historical police and amateur detective / reporter mystery. With a side of romance. 1st in the series. Lady Katherine Bascomb has a nose for news reporting and she feels the women of London deserve to know the truth behind the current “commandment” killings. Her news article has unintended consequences and she’s the one to find the next dead body. Detective Inspector Andrew Eversham thinks Katherine has put herself in the middle of trouble but he will work with her, and protect her while he investigates. A bit of teaching on both sides, police and aristocracy as they work through clues, suspects and secrets. A couple of times, I found myself zoning out from the “telling” rather than action. Katherine and Andrew start a bit of a romance on a superficial level apropos of the times and their stations in life. There is going to be a bit of a learning curve if there is to be a future to the romance as well as their partnership in investigations. A nice twist on a historical romance outside of the standard ballroom and debutant. (  ) Madison_Fairbanks | Mar 16, 2023 | England, 1865: Newspaper columnist Lady Katherine Bascomb finds herself the subject of speculation when her latest article leads to an arrest in the murders plaguing London. The English believe women ought not to write about such vulgar things as crime, and a particularly attractive detective inspector is incensed that she's interfered with his investigation. To escape her sudden notoriety, Katherine heads to the country-only to witness a murder upon her arrival. Detective Inspector Andrew Eversham is appalled when Lady Katherine entangles herself in one of his cases-again. Her sensationalist reporting already nearly got him kicked off the police force, and he'll be damned if he permits her to meddle a second time. Yet, her questions... paswell | Sep 3, 2022 | ) thewestwing | Aug 12, 2022 | Once upon a time (1865), a 40s yr old guy was killed by a serial killer. After his death, it turns out that he's got a secret stash of things his dad had taken/been given by the poet the his dad valeted for back in the day. This was shortly before his marriage, so it would have to be approximately 45-50 years before the start of the book. There's some disagreement between did the Dad leave when the poet died or when he ran out of money, but either way, it's explicitly stated that this was before the Dad got married and had 4 kids, of which the 40 yr old is one. EXCEPT that we know for a fact that the poet died less than 20 years before because there are some 21 yr olds running around whose dad was the poet and who were born shortly before his death. EXCEPT we know this because there's a woman's diary in the stuff the valet-dad stole from the poet, where she writes about marrying the poet and then it stops shortly before the kids are born in 1844. (which would have been about 30 years after the Valet-Dad left the poet's service and took some stuff with him including the diary that couldn't have been written yet.) AND for that matter, the main character's friend won the estate they're all on from this guy in a card game, and they're mid 30s? so figure at most it was 12 years prior, but I think it's more like 5-7. And ALL OF THESE timelines are talked about multiple times at different points in the book. Like it turns out that Dad actually married the poet's fiancée! So she's the mother of the 40 yr old guy who got killed by the 21 yr old children of the poet's actual wife, the woman the poet married 20 years prior instead of the ex-fiancée who got married after the poet's death, 50ish years before. DEAR LORD my brain hurts, these timelines can not all be right, how did anyone else read this book and not notice how RIDICULOUSLY WRONG the timeline was? 1  tanaise | Jul 17, 2022 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"England, 1865: As one of England's most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power. And she's determined to inform and educate the ladies of London on the nefarious-and deadly-criminals who are praying on the fairer sex. When her reporting leads to the arrest of a notorious killer, however, Katherine flees to a country house party to escape her newfound notoriety-only to witness a murder on her very first night. And when the lead detective accuses Katherine of inflaming-rather than informing-the public with her column, she vows to prove him wrong. Detective Inspector Andrew Eversham's refusal to compromise his investigations nearly cost him his own career, and he blames Katherine. To avoid bad publicity, his superiors are pressuring him to solve cases quickly rather than correctly. When he discovers she's the key witness in a new crime, he's determined to prevent the beautiful widow from once again wreaking havoc on his case. Yet as Katherine proves surprisingly insightful and Andrew impresses Katherine with his lethal competency, both are forced to admit the fire between them is more flirtatious than furious. But to explore the passion between them, they'll need to catch a killer"-- No library descriptions found. |
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