I bought the book for its setting- Newport, R.I. among the rich and famous in the Gilded Age. I enjoyed our heroine, who is more intelligent than most in a "cozy", and who surprised me by her response to a would-be suitor at the end. Good characterizations, my only quarrel would be with the plo...
. . and pierced the wet ground about a foot from James’s head. As the arrow trembled back and forth and settled into stillness, my heart dropped to my feet. One shot only—taken and missed. James’s eyes went wide and he darted an astonished look in Consuelo’s direction. Then he was scrambling to h...
Caroline Astor’s Italianate villa overlooking the sea. Gas lanterns swung gently from lines strung from tree to tree, while luminaries formed glowing snakes along both sides of the driveway that circled the fountain and its surrounding flowerbeds. Our progress from street to house took almost as ...
Through the high-set window, she spied a pair of legs clad in dark trousers and button-up demi boots pacing back and forth in the service courtyard. Nick, she quickly deduced. She traversed the corridor, snatched a cloak from the row of pegs near the door, and tossed it around her shoulders. A bi...
I know that because the bronze figurine mantel clock ticked away each eternal second with maddening precision. The voices in the other room droned on. They spoke of Sir Randall and Monsieur Baptiste, of the likelihood of having to remain at Rough Point indefinitely, or whether Jesse and his men w...