A Most Intriguing Lady: The instant Sunday Times bestseller! The most captivating historical romance of intrigue and scandal for 2023

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The story is broken into 4 parts; in the first Mary finds herself running a shooting party for her parents and has to handle a situation when one of the employees, a close friend, is accused of theft. There are some interesting secondary characters and the historical notes at the back of the book inform us about which of them were real as well as a few other interesting historical facts.

This was a thoroughly enjoyable story, set in the Victorian era, where women were still very subservient to men but beginning to rebel. Anyhoo, Lady Mary is not only a skilled gymnast and a crack shot but turns out to be quite the drawing room detective, solving domestic mysteries pertaining to lost brooches and irregular charity outgoings.Durante un evento di caccia, a cui sono presenti molti nobili invitati dai genitori, ha l’opportunità di mettere in luce le abilità deduttive e il sangue freddo che la contraddistinguono, venendo a capo di un piccolo mistero che ha come protagonista una spilla di grande valore. Mary, ultimogenita di un Duca molto vicino alla regina Vittoria, è cresciuta isolata in un palazzo in Scozia, a causa di una sorella maggiore fuggita di casa per non sposarsi con chi le era stato imposto; lo scandalo aveva coinvolto un po’ tutti e il padre ha preferito esiliarla in campagna, curata da domestici e governanti. Mentre corre la storia delle vicende di Mary, che sembra sempre attratta dagli intrighi e deve convivere con la sua strana madre malata di ipocondria e con il padre che la evita per la maggior parte del tempo, i due avranno l’opportunità di far crescere il sentimento che li lega, costruendo un rapporto paritario, l’unico che la volitiva ragazza possa accettare. Lady Mary is a dormouse with a secret, and Colonel Trefusis is a spymaster who may have met his match. Lady Mary appears to be shy and retiring, and the story begins when she has escaped from the formal dining room in the Scottish castle.

Missing jewels adds a mystery element and possibly just a thread to highlight that female detectives were operating in the period. Postage charges vary according to the weight of your items and the destination country, and are calculated at the checkout.You don't even get to see this interaction, Mary tells Tre about it after the fact, which I thought was a poor and rushed choice. I'm a fan of Miss Scarlet and the Duke and was hoping for something in a similar vein, but was sorely disappointed.

I thought it was an okay story although there were so many English terms or words that I was not familiar with. Mary is able to help solve several mysteries--an allegedly stolen brooch, and some embezzled funds--and would like to continue being useful and using her talents.Tortured by memories of combat, Walter, like Mary, lives a double life, with a desk job in Whitehall providing a front for his role in the British Intelligence Service. Nevertheless a great story once again about a female refusing to accept her position in life in the background and how she found herself.

At a party at Drumlanrig Castle, Mary meets the handsome, distinguished war veteran, Colonel Walter Trefusis, and finds her powers of deduction tested. But in the country houses of the elite, gentleman burglars, art thieves and con-men prey on the rich and titled.The writing was dreamily excellent and just sucked me in, so effortlessly, and refused to let me go. Colonel Trefusis is a guest of the Duke and Duchess, but when one of the other guests loses a valuable brooch he offers to help Mary solve the crime. The novel reflects the improving strength of the writing team which brings to the table Marguerite’s vast writing experience in the historical romance genre, with almost sixty books in her portfolio, and the Duchess’s lifelong experience of the aristocracy. Differing slightly from the usual Mills and Boon romance novel, the love affair between the books two central characters, Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott and Colonel Walter Trefusis, is the definition of a slow-burn yet takes somewhat of a back seat. It is at this party where Lady Mary also meets Colonel Walter Trefusis, a distinguished and extremely handsome war veteran.