The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury's Diamonds Author: Stephanie Laurens | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HQPB7MM | Format: EPUB
The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury's Diamonds Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of murder, mystery, passion, and intrigue – and diamonds!
Penelope Adair, wife and partner of amateur sleuth Barnaby Adair, is so hugely pregnant she cannot even waddle. When Barnaby is summoned to assist Inspector Stokes of Scotland Yard in investigating the violent murder of a gentleman at a house party, Penelope, frustrated that she cannot participate, insists that she and Griselda, Stokes’s wife, be kept informed of their husbands’ discoveries.
Yet what Barnaby and Stokes uncover only leads to more questions. The murdered gentleman had been thrown out of the house party days before, so why had he returned? And how and why did he come to have the fabulous Finsbury diamond necklace in his pocket, much to Lord Finsbury’s consternation? Most peculiar of all, why had the murderer left the necklace, worth a stupendous fortune, on the body?
The conundrums compound as our intrepid investigators attempt to make sense of this baffling case. Meanwhile, the threat of scandal grows ever more tangible for all those attending the house party – and the stakes are highest for Lord Finsbury’s daughter and the gentleman who has spent the last decade resurrecting his family fortune so he can aspire to her hand. Working parallel to Barnaby and Stokes, the would-be lovers hunt for a path through the maze of contradictory facts to expose the murderer, disperse the pall of scandal, and claim the love and the shared life they crave.
A pre-Victorian mystery with strong elements of romance. A short novel of 39,000 words.
An entry in The Casebook of Barnaby Adair series, the events in this short novel occur between the events described in the full-length Casebook novels, WHERE THE HEART LEADS and the upcoming THE MASTERFUL MR. MONTAGUE.
Praise for the works of Stephanie Laurens
“Stephanie Laurens’ heroines are marvelous tributes to Georgette Heyer: feisty and strong.” Cathy Kelly
“Stephanie Laurens never fails to entertain and charm her readers with vibrant plots, snappy dialogue, and unforgettable characters.” Historical Romance Reviews.
“Stephanie Laurens plays into readers’ fantasies like a master and claims their hearts time and again.” Romantic Times Magazine
Praise for Where the Heart Leads: Volume 1 in the Casebook of Barnaby Adair
"A satisfying blend of mystery and romance." Publishers Weekly
"In an Amanda Quick-style suspense/romance, Laurens never loses touch with her characters' deep emotions or the haunting mystery." Romantic Times
"An interesting and absorbing plot...an exciting and appealing romantic mystery." FreshFiction.com
- File Size: 1380 KB
- Print Length: 148 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0992278937
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Savdek Management Proprietary Limited (January 6, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HQPB7MM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
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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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