Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters. Much to her surprise, the one man she had hoped to forget—the ...
"LET THE WICKED BE ASHAMED, AND LET THEM BE SILENT IN THE GRAVE." These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry a...
I thoroughly enjoy reading about Nicholas and Julia Brisbane, a fine British couple who hail from very different backgrounds. She is the Lady Julia, daughter of a Lord, and Nicholas, born to a gypsy mother. Makes for an interesting read.I started with the first book in this series and have not ...
This book did not grab me like the others... Lady J & Mr B are settling into married life while she continues to inject herself into the inquiry business totally ignoring the warnings of her smexy hubby's real dangers of the inquiry business. Sadly, I found her prattling-whining about her husband...
I discovered this series a few years ago, upon the recommendation of the lovely folks at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop (located in Seattle, of course). The series takes place in England (mostly) in the 1800s. Lady Julia Grey comes from a family of wealthy and eccentric aristocrats. She manages ...
These books about the Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane are amid of a light mystery with a hunk of romance thrown in and while I don't mind a bit of romance, this book seemed to have a rather hefty dose this time around. Brisbane gets himself an estate, albeit one that is falling apart, and when J...