A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.
1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive, mysterious, French physician Armand Fortier disturbs her first weeks of mourning with his theory of murder, Helena's reluctant and ineffective attempts at investigation are hardly life-changing—until the resulting revival in her long-abandoned herbalist studies bring her into confrontation with her past and her family's.
Can Lady Helena survive bereavement the second time around? Can she stand up to her six siblings' assumption of the right to control her new life as a widow? And what role will Fortier—who, as a physician, is a most unsuitable companion for an earl's daughter—play in her investigations?
Every family has its secrets. The Scott-De Quincy family has more than most.
© 2018 Aspidistra Press (Lydbog): 9780995748453
Release date
Lydbog: 10. oktober 2018
A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.
1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive, mysterious, French physician Armand Fortier disturbs her first weeks of mourning with his theory of murder, Helena's reluctant and ineffective attempts at investigation are hardly life-changing—until the resulting revival in her long-abandoned herbalist studies bring her into confrontation with her past and her family's.
Can Lady Helena survive bereavement the second time around? Can she stand up to her six siblings' assumption of the right to control her new life as a widow? And what role will Fortier—who, as a physician, is a most unsuitable companion for an earl's daughter—play in her investigations?
Every family has its secrets. The Scott-De Quincy family has more than most.
© 2018 Aspidistra Press (Lydbog): 9780995748453
Release date
Lydbog: 10. oktober 2018
Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis
Samlet bedømmelse baseret på 147 bedømmelser
Hyggelig
Feelgood
Page-turner
Download appen for at deltage i samtalen og tilføje anmeldelser.
Viser 2 af 147
Stine
17. maj 2023
En hyggelig hverdags semi-murder-mysteryTitlen er lidt misvisende, da selve detektivdelen fylder forholdsvis lidt.Men historien var sødGod oplæser
Britta
27. feb. 2024
Meget spændende historie fra tidligere tider i England. Interessant udvikling af den kvindelige hovedrolle. Meget tydeligt indlæst.
Dansk
Danmark