so-soI love that a woman is doing much of the investigating. The story didn‘t grip me as much as the first two in the series did, but it did ramp up a bit toward the end. Still enjoying it enough to continue the series.
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Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets | 
so-soI love that a woman is doing much of the investigating. The story didn‘t grip me as much as the first two in the series did, but it did ramp up a bit toward the end. Still enjoying it enough to continue the series.
pickOpera singer Claire Buchanan is haunted by the recent death of her twin sister Catherine, & niece,in childbirth. Claire feels her sister‘s lingering presence. Postmortem photos offered a way for those left behind to assuage their grief. But Claire sees only deep sadness in her sister‘s eyes.She suspects her brother in-law,a cold,calculating,controlling man of her murder.Claire hires Prudence MacKenzie & ex Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter to investigate.
#24in4 readathon
Keeping Track of hours read doesn‘t work for me, so I am totaling up # of pages read.
Read Bloomsbury Girls in its entirety: 353 pp; Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets, also it‘s entirety:311 pp; Whose Body? In entirety: 213 pp. You‘ve Changed:36 pp; Anam Cara: 9 pp.
In total I read 922 pp. I am quite happy with that!
Such a gentle breeze, wind chimes-all is quiet after our traditional Village Memorial Day parade,that goes right by my front yard. We join in the end of the parade & go to the cemetery for speeches, a fly over,& a 4-gun salute.Then a short walk away at the fire house, there is coffee, ice cream, hot dogs. Wonderful community event.#MemorialDay #remembrance #porchlife
Such an incredible day with an incredible author! She‘s engaging and funny and very knowledgeable. I couldn‘t have asked for a better day. Pictured is her inscription to me in the tagged book. Such a humbling experience.
Incidentally, she found out today that her editor accepted the draft for her fifth book. A few revisions needed, but it‘s slated to be published November 2020.
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Book 3 of this series. Prudence is engaged to find out why a woman and her newborn baby died. The plot was decent, this one wasnt as good as previous, but I will continue to read series
pickI LOVE these books. Even back to back. I enjoy the story, the characters the setting. I‘m only bummed I now need to wait for a new one. I highly recommend for a good historical character driven crime fiction.
so-so🍭🍭🍭 review is up on my blog. Stop by and say hi! https://reecaspieces.com/2018/11/27/let-the-dead-keep-their-secrets-gilded-age-m...
pickAlways happy to discover an author who‘s new to me! I enjoyed this one and look forward to going back to read the first two in the series.
Our sleuths are an orphaned young woman whose father was a judge (she wants to be a lawyer) and an ex-Pinkerton detective from North Carolina now making NY his home. Diabolical villains, a hint of romance and a well-plotted story. Especially ❤️ the courageously determined Prudence! 4/5⭐️
#NetGalley #Kensington
Up next (and 39% in), an ARC from #Kensington and #NetGalley. An historical mystery from a new-to-me author who wouldn‘t be so new-to-me if I had realized earlier that this was third in a series....darn it, I hate it when that happens! 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️😩🙄😂 Guess who‘s going to be playing catch-up at some point in time?! 🙋🏻♀️ Oh well, the story of my life....
