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Laddar... Treacherous is the Nightav Anna Lee Huber
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This series is driving me crazy; I love the author's writing, the characters, the settings, the mysteries. But I hate one of the major plot points. I'm not sure how to reconcile this, really. I want to read them, but they piss me off at the same time. With that disclosure, it's a good book, although a bit rambling. I notice tis with a lot of Kensington books, so I think it's more an editorial style than a failing on the author's part. A tighter editing would have resulted in a faster paced mystery and less exposition about the devastation of WWI. Don't get me wrong: the exposition was interesting, but it was a tad repetitive. My biggest complaint, and again, something that could have been avoided by a stricter editor, was Verity's constant, constant, mention of Her Big Secret and how she should tell her husband; it's revelation is inevitable; they can't move on unless she does; really, it would be best to come clean... but not now. Never now. Then, finally, the revelation. And all I could think was omg, who cares?. I realise people were a lot touchier about things in 1918, but give me a break; without spoiling things, her husband didn't have a leg to stand on and she really ought to have just told him to suck it up and deal with it. I don't know if I'll read the third one when it comes out or not. If I do, I'm pretty sure I'm stuck with that plot point and, well, I just don't know that I care enough about Verity as things stand. 1919 England and Verity is persuaded to attend a seance where she receives a message supposedly from a woman she once worked with in the Secret Service. Trying to solve the mystery leads Verity to Belgium. An interesting historical fiction story/thriller with some danger and intrigue mixed in with secrets from the war. A Netgalley Book Verity worked in Belgium as a courier in WWI for British Intelligence while her husband, Sidney (whom was reported dead), was working to unmask traitors in his unit... Now they are reunited and working to save their marriage. Verity is persuaded by a friend to attend a séance, where she is told by the medium that she is in danger and needs to find her Belgium contact, Emilie, with whom she worked as a mid-wife's assistant & under-cover courier. Verity is convinced that the Medium has been fed state secrets and goes to confront her, but when she arrives at the Medium's home, the Medium's assistant is standing out on the sidewalk while the house is consumed in flames.... the Medium dead inside. Verity visits British Intelligence, where she is dismissed and told to leave... so verity does the only thing she can; she & Sidney travel to Belgium to locate Emilie and put an end to the danger. Some of the paragraphs I skimmed, because I just wasn't interested in all the extraneous explanations, but mostly I liked the story. I found the book interesting and read it through in one day. I'm not sure about the characters; although verity is doing her best to come to terms with her marriage, Sidney is jealous of Verity's male friends and keeps forgetting that he was dead to the world for most of the war and that Verity had a most dangerous job w/ British Intelligence, so there is a double standard and hopefully it will not drag on into the other books in the series. I must confess I nearly abandoned this book at the beginning because it began with Verity attending a seance. I'm not a fan of Occult elements and really don't want to read about them. However, I stayed with it, and I ended up enjoying the mystery. The medium's message for her revealed secret information from Verity's past life as a spy that was classified. When the medium's home burned, Verity knew she must act. She and her now-returned husband head to Belgium to try to get to the bottom of the message. Verity and her husband are finding it difficult to adjust to one another, and he feels threatened by her relationship with one of her former co-workers. I wish the author had chosen some other set-up to lead to the investigation. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: In 1919 England, in the shadow of The Great War, many look to the spirit world for answers. But it will take an all-too-earthbound intrigue to draw in the discerning heroine of Anna Lee Huber's latest mystery. It's not that Verity Kent doesn't sympathize with those eager to make contact with lost loved ones. After all, she once believed herself a war widow. But now that she's discovered Sidney is very much alive, Verity is having enough trouble connecting with her estranged husband, never mind the dead. Still, at a friend's behest, Verity attends a seance, where she encounters the man who still looms between her and Sidney-and a medium who channels a woman Verity once worked with in the Secret Service. Refusing to believe her former fellow spy is dead, Verity is determined to uncover the source of the spiritualist's top-secret revelation. Then the medium is murdered-and Verity's investigation is suddenly thwarted. Even Secret Service agents she once trusted turn their backs on her. Undaunted, Verity heads to war-torn Belgium, with Sidney by her side. But as they draw ever closer to the danger, Verity wonders if she's about to learn the true meaning of till death do us part. .Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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At times, I had trouble following the logic of the mystery in this story, but I thought the romance was superb.