Lady Odelia's Secret | 
pickI really enjoyed the debut of this series in 2018 and was glad to finally check back in with Lady Helena, a young widow living in 1880s Sussex with a large, eccentric family, a handsome French physician living nearby and a penchant for making herbal remedies and solving mysteries. Both London and Sussex are settings here, and while visiting in London she makes a startling and uncomfortable discovery about her sister Odelia (who is 10 years 🔻
robinb older and an artist). As Odelia begins to receive disturbing and threatening messages related to her “secret”, Helena and her lady‘s maid Guttridge, work to put the clues together following a murder related to that secret. There is a lot going on in this one…the secret and how it affects Helena‘s relationship with her favorite sister, her struggle to find/change her standing with her overbearing siblings, 🔻 3y
robinb her discovery of Fortier‘s thoughts about her and her wanting to come into her own and make her mark in her world. It‘s a bit of a different kind of mystery in that it also covers more personal topics and deeper family issues rather than just a straightforward whodunit. And while that necessarily precluded the usual amount of action in a mystery, 🔻 3y
robinb I actually found it refreshing and insightful. I really enjoyed this one and am hoping the wait won‘t be quite as long for the next installment. 4.5/5⭐️ 3y