Behind The Shattered Glass (A Lady Emily Mystery)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1410465985 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 483 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Emily's narrative alternates with a chronicle of life below stairs at Anglemore, where the servants hold valuable clues. One suspect is the victim's cousin Matilda, who loves Montagu Manor fiercely and hopes to inherit it, but the many women the peer has seduced or compromised have reason to wish him dead as well. Agent: Anne Hawkins, John Hawkins & Associates. Boisterous adventurer Rodney Scolfield and Emily's hidebound mother, Lady Bromley, are especially amusing. From Publishers Weekly In Alexander's entertaining eighth Victorian mystery (after 2012's Death in the Floating City), the recent birth of twin sons keeps amateur sleuth Lady Emily and her husband,
"Sad to say I only could read about half of" according to Zahara. Sad to say I only could read about half of this book before I went to the back and read the ending. It just seems to drag on and on. I also just couldn't warm up to the upstairs/downstairs concept. The story was just not that interesting. On the nit picking side.Emily wants to learn to speak Egyptiangood luck with that! The author didn't seem to know that no one knows how the language of the ancient Egyptians sounded.. A favorite! YorkieLover One of my favorite Lady Emily books. This particular book is most like the Downton Abbey series that intertwines the downstairs help with the privileged lives.. A big disappointment The last book, set in Venice, was a really good entry in the series. This one is a big disappointment. I found the writing lazy, without a good plot or cohesive story line. There were so many scenes narrated by the staff that I kept thinking of the terrible Rita Mae Brown books narrated by pets who are the detectives, which is a lazy way to avoid developing the characters who are the reason we read this series. I agree with the reviewers who think that someone other than Tasha Alexander wrote a lot of this, but with her permission to use her name. Lady Emily's and Colin's behavior is not consistent with their characters as deve
But who has a motive for murdering the young aristocrat? One family?s hidden past and a forbidden passion are the clues to a puzzle only Lady Emily can solve.. New York Times Bestselling Author Anglemore Park is the ancestral home of Lady Emily Hargreave?s husband Colin. The stately calm of country life there is destroyed when their neighbor, the Marquess of Montagu, bursts through the French doors from the garden and falls down dead in front of the shocked gathering