A Regency lady with a hidden past joins forces with an irritable aristocrat to solve a dastardly series of crimes.

Murder at Kensington Palace: A Wrexford and Sloane Mystery

The mystery started with a murder about 2 weeks after the adventure of Book 2. Whether he wants it or not, Wrexford has to use his connection to investigate because the victim was someone close to Mrs Sloane. It's really good that the author is able to make you feel inside the story and give you deatils of what was happening in that period. It was not imposed to you, but I felt like I was inside the story and was living in that era!

Nonfiction Book Review: Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley. St. Martin's". ( ISBN 978-1-250-13160-7) Most of the villains get their just desserts, but one was left standing. Granted, he wasn’t hands-on, but he definitely knew what was going on and enabled its happening – so – I wanted to see him go down in some way or another. Lucy Worsley OBE (born 18 December 1973) is a British historian, author, curator and television presenter. [1] She is joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces but is best known as a presenter of BBC Television and Channel 5 series on historical topics. Perhaps you should stop thinking of this transformation as the death of your old self...the essence of who you are isn’t changing a whit. You’re merely taking on new plumage...After all, one of your street monikers is Phoenix, a bird who rises from the ashes with bold, beautiful new feathers with which to fly into the future."

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On the morning of 20 June 1837, Princess Victoria woke up to be told that the King had died and that she was now Queen. She was just 18 years old.The book alternates between Slone’s point of view and that of Wrexford. The author uses this as a way of increasing tension and helping pull the reader through the book at an even pace. These changes occur at well-placed intervals that serve to leave the reader wanting more with one character while at the same time being intrigued by what is happening with the other.