The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury's Diamonds: A Casebook of Barnaby Adair Short Novel Author: Visit Amazon's Stephanie Laurens Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0992278937 | Format: EPUB
The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury's Diamonds: A Casebook of Barnaby Adair Short Novel Description
- Series: The Casebook of Barnaby Adair
- Paperback: 146 pages
- Publisher: Savdek Management Pty Limited (January 20, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0992278937
- ISBN-13: 978-0992278939
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Delightful!
There are a couple things to know going into reading this book, especially if you're a big fan of Stephanie Laurens like I am.
1. It's a novella, rather than a full-length book - but the length was perfect.
2. There's almost no Cynster involvement - indeed, other than Lucifer getting a mention as a possible resource, they don't appear at all.
3. This might be the best spin-off of the Cynster series Laurens has produced thus far... depending on what you like (I was a big fan of about half the Bastion club books)
Barnaby was always one of my favorites, and I loved Penelope too, but I wasn't sure how well Ms. Laurens would do without the mystery focusing on the two main characters... she solved that in part because there were two other characters who helped Stokes and Adair solve the case! And, of course, they had a romance going on =) This is a clean regency book, there's none of the sumptuous love scenes that Ms. Laurens so often thrills us with, because the focus is more on the murder and the theft of the Finsbury's diamonds and the confusing mystery of what happened and whodunnit!
The mystery is well handled, constantly kept me guessing, and had more than enough twists to satisfy me even when I thought I'd figured everything out! And, even though Penelope and Griselda are both pregnant and unable to be fully immersed in the mystery, both of them manage to provide some key observations that send their husbands in the right direction (although I'm sure they'd have gotten there one their own eventually, just not as quickly).
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