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Angela Marchmont Mystery #6
The Imbroglio at the Villa Pozzi
While holidaying in Italy, Angela Marchmont is persuaded to postpone her trip to Venice and go to Stresa instead, to investigate a pair of spiritualists who are suspected of defrauding some of the town’s English residents out of their money. But what starts out as a minor matter swiftly becomes more serious when one of the residents in question is found dead in the beautiful gardens of his home, having apparently committed suicide.
Seduced by the heady sights and scents of the Italian Lakes, and distracted by an unexpected encounter with an old adversary who seems bent on provoking her, Angela sets out to find out the truth of the affair and resume her journey to Venice before she forgets herself and loses her head—and her heart.
Seduced by the heady sights and scents of the Italian Lakes, and distracted by an unexpected encounter with an old adversary who seems bent on provoking her, Angela sets out to find out the truth of the affair and resume her journey to Venice before she forgets herself and loses her head—and her heart.
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29 books350 followersClara Benson is the author of the Angela Marchmont Mysteries and Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures - traditional English whodunits in authentic style set in the 1920s and 30s. One day she would like to drink cocktails and solve mysteries in a sequinned dress and evening gloves. In the meantime she lives in the north of England with her family and doesn't do any of those things.
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April 9, 2020
Angela Marchmont is on holiday in Italy and plans to go to Venice next, when a plea from an old friend, leads her to go to Stresa instead. A new friend, Elsa Peters, is also visiting, as are two art students, who she has met. Angela’s old friend, Mary Ainsley, says her vicar husband, Jonathan, is distressed about two local spiritualists, who he feels are defrauding English residents and visitors. Angela agrees to help, but quickly decamps from their cramped apartment, to a nearby hotel, where she meets up with Elsa Peters again. While involved in this mystery, she also meets up with Edgar Valencourt, a gentleman burgler/thief, who first appeared in, “The Treasure at Poldarrow Point.”
I have mixed feelings about this series. Often, I feel the actual mystery is quite basic, but then I do like the characters and this keeps me reading. With this instalment, we have some romance, the wonderfully over the top Asphodel Quinn, with mama, the more business minded, Mrs Quinn, some ex-pats, artists and the handsome Mr Valencourt, as well as possibly fake Italian Duchessa. Along the way there is murder, of course, and Angela unravels the mystery, but, perhaps, that is secondary to the characters. Still, good fun and I am now convinced that I will read on.
I have mixed feelings about this series. Often, I feel the actual mystery is quite basic, but then I do like the characters and this keeps me reading. With this instalment, we have some romance, the wonderfully over the top Asphodel Quinn, with mama, the more business minded, Mrs Quinn, some ex-pats, artists and the handsome Mr Valencourt, as well as possibly fake Italian Duchessa. Along the way there is murder, of course, and Angela unravels the mystery, but, perhaps, that is secondary to the characters. Still, good fun and I am now convinced that I will read on.
January 23, 2017
I felt that this was one of the better entries in the series so far; almost, but not quite, stands alone. Characters were varied, rather than stock, and mostly English as Angela doesn't speak Italian. Setting made a nice change of pace from English country houses.
April 20, 2020
3.5 stars for another enjoyable outing with the glamorous, likable Angela Marchmont; this time, readers get a delightful visit to Stresa, Italy as she answers a friend’s request to interrupt her holiday to investigate two questionable psychics.
Angela is enjoying a delightful, but rigorous, guided tour of Italy (great pandemic reading, Angela always travels to interesting places in this series, set among the British upper classes between the wars). She has made a friend, Mrs. Peters, who is traveling on to Stresa, and speaks highly of the town and it’s beauties. Angela means to see Venice, but an old school friend asks her to come to Stresa as she needs her help.
Angela goes, and finds the town beautiful, but is less than thrilled when her friend, Mary, explains the problem - her husband, the local English vicar, feels a mother and daughter pair of psychics, are conning English visitors and depleting his flock. Angela agrees to try them for a sitting, and promptly checks into the nicest hotel catering to English tourists. She meets some interesting locals and fellow tourists, has a seance with the interesting and agreeable Mrs. Quinn and her daughter, and runs into an old acquaintance (I haven’t read the entire series, so was not familiar with the backstory of Edgar). Soon, one of the English ex-pats is found dead, apparently a suicide, but Angela isn’t satisfied...
I mostly enjoyed this book and it was a treat to visit Italy with Angela and learn a bit more about her - this Edgar guy is very attracted to her, she doesn’t want to visit her stuffy brother, and her husband is apparently still alive. I’ve read a few other books in the series with the Reading the Detectives group, and gather she lived in America for awhile and left her husband, but her past is somewhat of a mystery. I’d like to read the next book, where she visits the stuffy brother and family, to see how that goes, and see if we learn more about the cliffhanger ending of this book. No spoilers, but there is no resolution of the mystery, so that affected what had been an enjoyable book for me - the romance angle took over. I’ll probably read the next book to see what happens, and if the mystery is more front and center in the next outing.
Angela is enjoying a delightful, but rigorous, guided tour of Italy (great pandemic reading, Angela always travels to interesting places in this series, set among the British upper classes between the wars). She has made a friend, Mrs. Peters, who is traveling on to Stresa, and speaks highly of the town and it’s beauties. Angela means to see Venice, but an old school friend asks her to come to Stresa as she needs her help.
Angela goes, and finds the town beautiful, but is less than thrilled when her friend, Mary, explains the problem - her husband, the local English vicar, feels a mother and daughter pair of psychics, are conning English visitors and depleting his flock. Angela agrees to try them for a sitting, and promptly checks into the nicest hotel catering to English tourists. She meets some interesting locals and fellow tourists, has a seance with the interesting and agreeable Mrs. Quinn and her daughter, and runs into an old acquaintance (I haven’t read the entire series, so was not familiar with the backstory of Edgar). Soon, one of the English ex-pats is found dead, apparently a suicide, but Angela isn’t satisfied...
I mostly enjoyed this book and it was a treat to visit Italy with Angela and learn a bit more about her - this Edgar guy is very attracted to her, she doesn’t want to visit her stuffy brother, and her husband is apparently still alive. I’ve read a few other books in the series with the Reading the Detectives group, and gather she lived in America for awhile and left her husband, but her past is somewhat of a mystery. I’d like to read the next book, where she visits the stuffy brother and family, to see how that goes, and see if we learn more about the cliffhanger ending of this book. No spoilers, but there is no resolution of the mystery, so that affected what had been an enjoyable book for me - the romance angle took over. I’ll probably read the next book to see what happens, and if the mystery is more front and center in the next outing.
December 18, 2015
Good grief, that was the most amazing fun. The sixth Angela Marchmont amateur detective series, set in the twenties, sees Angela holidaying in Italy, tangling with spiritualists and meeting an old acquaintance, a certain jewel thief by the name of Edgar Valencourt, last seen charming Angela in The Treasure at Poldarrow Point, book 3 of the series. I always hoped he’d turn up again, but his reappearance was even better than I could have imagined.
The mystery this time is nothing terribly convoluted, but I enjoyed trying to puzzle it out, getting it wrong and watching Angela resolve everything with an airy wave of her hand. But the murder takes a back seat to the characters, and their personal lives. The mysterious Duchessa, for example, who pops up from time to time. The fidgety English clergyman and his long-suffering wife. The almost-convincing medium and the daughter who ‘sees’ things. Even the Italian hotelier and the relaxed ask-no-questions local policeman. All of them feel very real, and the author has cleverly resisted the temptation to resort to caricatures or stereotypes.
But for me the big attraction is Mr Valencourt. He’s a charmer, of course, but then, he’s a con-man, so that goes with the territory, and Angela should know better than to fall under his spell. She does know better, in fact, but somehow she can’t resist him, and he can’t resist her either, even though she knows his criminal background and could give him away. And oh so gently they circle around each other. Their conversations are an absolute delight, every scene sparkling with wit and charm and affection, in a manner completely lost in modern-style books where the romantic couple simply dive into bed together. I loved it.
This book was a joy to read. Italy was the perfect setting, the mystery was plausible, the characters were entertaining and the romance - oh, the romance! If Mrs Marchmont and Mr Valencourt don’t make a match of it eventually, I shall be sorely disappointed. Although Mr Marchmont would seem to be something of an obstacle.
This series just gets better and better. Five stars. At least.
The mystery this time is nothing terribly convoluted, but I enjoyed trying to puzzle it out, getting it wrong and watching Angela resolve everything with an airy wave of her hand. But the murder takes a back seat to the characters, and their personal lives. The mysterious Duchessa, for example, who pops up from time to time. The fidgety English clergyman and his long-suffering wife. The almost-convincing medium and the daughter who ‘sees’ things. Even the Italian hotelier and the relaxed ask-no-questions local policeman. All of them feel very real, and the author has cleverly resisted the temptation to resort to caricatures or stereotypes.
But for me the big attraction is Mr Valencourt. He’s a charmer, of course, but then, he’s a con-man, so that goes with the territory, and Angela should know better than to fall under his spell. She does know better, in fact, but somehow she can’t resist him, and he can’t resist her either, even though she knows his criminal background and could give him away. And oh so gently they circle around each other. Their conversations are an absolute delight, every scene sparkling with wit and charm and affection, in a manner completely lost in modern-style books where the romantic couple simply dive into bed together. I loved it.
This book was a joy to read. Italy was the perfect setting, the mystery was plausible, the characters were entertaining and the romance - oh, the romance! If Mrs Marchmont and Mr Valencourt don’t make a match of it eventually, I shall be sorely disappointed. Although Mr Marchmont would seem to be something of an obstacle.
This series just gets better and better. Five stars. At least.
April 26, 2020
I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would - I thought it might be too cosy but it was a well-written mystery with likeable characters and, of course, it was set in Italy (I love Italy). In these strange days of lockdown I found this book a breath of fresh air.
April 16, 2015
how can one not like a book that throws the word imbroglio around?
April 10, 2015
Angela comes of age! I'm surprised at some of the criticism of this entry; that is, it wasn't so interesting because it was it takes place in Italy, not a country house in some isolated spot in the British Isles. The plot isn't as gory as some others in the series, but that's OK. And so happy to see the return of Edgar Valencourt. Yay! I have to agree with him that he and Angela have a bit more in common that Angela would like to admit. Actually, I think she knows it too, and that's what scares her.. There's a nice open ending to this one leaving us to wonder what's in store in future books. I can't believe we won't see him again.
There's discussion as to whether there was a real "Clara Bensen" or she is just a publisher ploy to sell books. I've looked around and found nothing about her other than the short bio from the publisher, so I'm guessing the latter, but at this point I don't care. I like to think of her as an early 20th century mystery writer, but if not--so what. The books are getting damn good.
There's discussion as to whether there was a real "Clara Bensen" or she is just a publisher ploy to sell books. I've looked around and found nothing about her other than the short bio from the publisher, so I'm guessing the latter, but at this point I don't care. I like to think of her as an early 20th century mystery writer, but if not--so what. The books are getting damn good.
October 6, 2015
I really don't think these 'Clara Benson' books were written in the early 20th century. The book is a perfectly fine 'cosy' mystery, but I don't buy the story that it had recently been found by the author's family.
Writers of popular novels from the 1900 - 1930 era, like Jane Abbott, Edgar Wallace, E. Philips Oppenheim, Edna Ferber, Margaret Sydney, Willian McLeod Raine, or Angela Thirkell, include a great deal of description in their novels. Typically, there are pages and pages of detailed description of absolutely everything. Especially if the book is set in a foreign country like this one is. At the time, very few people had the means to do very much traveling, so readers liked finding out about the details of what it's like to live in a place like Italy. There was no television, or magazines, or much of the other media which we take for granted these days. So books were seen as a way to learn about foreign cultures. The food, clothing, family life, architecture, art, even the plants and local animals are all described in novels from this era. . It could be why these writers are not very well known now, it's a different style that seems odd and at times tedious to modern readers. There's none of this type of description in these books. Since there is not as much description as is typical for this era, the plotting is too fast paced to have been from this era.
The vocabulary is also not as complex as the typical novel from this era. Yes, it's sprinkled with a few key phrases, but each sentence is fairly simple and uses common words. Read an old book and the sentences are filled with words that are not very commonly used now, and are much more complex than this.
Also, the attitudes and reactions of the characters are much too modern. It was very rare for a single woman to travel as much as this character does, and she also does it not just as a single woman, but alone as well, with no friend with her. Maybe this is explained in one of the other books, but this really was not common at the time. Isabella Bird was able to do it, but she was the rare exception.
There is a scene where the main character drives a car. Driving was still very uncommon in the 1920's, a bit less in the 30's, but very few people had cars in comparison to the total population, and it was not at all common for women to learn how to drive. Cars of this era are not at all easy to drive, they don't have all the modern conveniences like power steering and automatic transmission, so it's not exactly easy to drive a car from the 1920's, it's a lot of work to just steer the car. In books of this era, there would normally be a detailed description as to how the main character learned how to drive, where they got the car, why they were driving,what an adventure it is to drive. But not here, she just gets in the car and drives.
I would have been much more accepting of the premise if I knew it had been written recently, and it had been released as a mystery that just happens to be set in the 1920's, but being told that it was written close to 100 years ago just ended up getting me irritated. Read a Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie instead.
Writers of popular novels from the 1900 - 1930 era, like Jane Abbott, Edgar Wallace, E. Philips Oppenheim, Edna Ferber, Margaret Sydney, Willian McLeod Raine, or Angela Thirkell, include a great deal of description in their novels. Typically, there are pages and pages of detailed description of absolutely everything. Especially if the book is set in a foreign country like this one is. At the time, very few people had the means to do very much traveling, so readers liked finding out about the details of what it's like to live in a place like Italy. There was no television, or magazines, or much of the other media which we take for granted these days. So books were seen as a way to learn about foreign cultures. The food, clothing, family life, architecture, art, even the plants and local animals are all described in novels from this era. . It could be why these writers are not very well known now, it's a different style that seems odd and at times tedious to modern readers. There's none of this type of description in these books. Since there is not as much description as is typical for this era, the plotting is too fast paced to have been from this era.
The vocabulary is also not as complex as the typical novel from this era. Yes, it's sprinkled with a few key phrases, but each sentence is fairly simple and uses common words. Read an old book and the sentences are filled with words that are not very commonly used now, and are much more complex than this.
Also, the attitudes and reactions of the characters are much too modern. It was very rare for a single woman to travel as much as this character does, and she also does it not just as a single woman, but alone as well, with no friend with her. Maybe this is explained in one of the other books, but this really was not common at the time. Isabella Bird was able to do it, but she was the rare exception.
There is a scene where the main character drives a car. Driving was still very uncommon in the 1920's, a bit less in the 30's, but very few people had cars in comparison to the total population, and it was not at all common for women to learn how to drive. Cars of this era are not at all easy to drive, they don't have all the modern conveniences like power steering and automatic transmission, so it's not exactly easy to drive a car from the 1920's, it's a lot of work to just steer the car. In books of this era, there would normally be a detailed description as to how the main character learned how to drive, where they got the car, why they were driving,what an adventure it is to drive. But not here, she just gets in the car and drives.
I would have been much more accepting of the premise if I knew it had been written recently, and it had been released as a mystery that just happens to be set in the 1920's, but being told that it was written close to 100 years ago just ended up getting me irritated. Read a Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie instead.
July 10, 2017
I read the first books (started with the three "Freddie" books) just to find out what they were (questions about the authors existence were intriguing ; were these newly discovered cozy murder novels written in the 1920's? Or written by a modern author mimicking the 20's writings of , say Margery Allingham???)
I love these books and am so addicted now. So thankful for kindle unlimited for feeding that addiction!! However I am sure the author , who maintains a viable Facebook page, is alive, well , (probably YOUNG,)and living happily somewhere in the U.K.!!!
I love these books and am so addicted now. So thankful for kindle unlimited for feeding that addiction!! However I am sure the author , who maintains a viable Facebook page, is alive, well , (probably YOUNG,)and living happily somewhere in the U.K.!!!
June 28, 2017
This story contained too much of the occult for my taste. I still like the characters and will read the next in the series.
November 18, 2018
Plot-wise, definitely not the greatest, but if you have been following the series from the start, you would absolutely enjoy this one. You get to know more about Angela, which I liked reading very much. Also, new relationships are formed, which I'm hoping would continue in the following books.
The Story is set in Italy, where Angela has gone for a vacation, but a sudden detour takes her to Stresa, where there is a man hanging to his death. Everyone assumes it is suicide since there is no evidence to suggest otherwise, but we all know that's not we paid for. And so Angela is left to figure out what really happened. Now throw in some past adversaries, affairs, and some shady fortune telling, you get yourself a cozy, armchair mystery.
Every time I finish a book in the series, the first thing I do after is to order the next one, even though I take some time to finish it. And this one ends with a subtle yet mysterious prophecy, which kinda hints at something worse happening to Angela in the future, which I am excited to know. I definitely recommend the series rather than reading this one separately. So if you are looking for a 20th-century detective mystery, with an adventurous and witty female lead, this is the one!
The Story is set in Italy, where Angela has gone for a vacation, but a sudden detour takes her to Stresa, where there is a man hanging to his death. Everyone assumes it is suicide since there is no evidence to suggest otherwise, but we all know that's not we paid for. And so Angela is left to figure out what really happened. Now throw in some past adversaries, affairs, and some shady fortune telling, you get yourself a cozy, armchair mystery.
Every time I finish a book in the series, the first thing I do after is to order the next one, even though I take some time to finish it. And this one ends with a subtle yet mysterious prophecy, which kinda hints at something worse happening to Angela in the future, which I am excited to know. I definitely recommend the series rather than reading this one separately. So if you are looking for a 20th-century detective mystery, with an adventurous and witty female lead, this is the one!
July 31, 2018
Once again, barely a 3 star rating. This is a murder mystery .... why does the author spend so many pages introducing secondary characters, and their tour of Florence. (This is a murder mystery!)
Why not have the murder occur much earlier? I have now read most of this series and I do like the primary character Angela, but someone new to the series may not read very far into the book. Nothing much of significance happens for a long time. Dining, touring, chatting ... a boring seance that does not succeed.... And too many of the characters, introduced earlier in Florence, just happen to all be in the same village in Italy, including one from a previous book. (I can accept one or two coincidences but this many?)
The long delay in getting to the plot is true of several of the books. The best of the series is Riddle at Gipsy's Mile (Book #4). It starts with the plot (discovery of the body) and introduces the secondary characters later. This is the way to organize a murder mystery. Not with page after page of people chatting, dining, drinking, taking a boat tour ....Get to the plot!
Why not have the murder occur much earlier? I have now read most of this series and I do like the primary character Angela, but someone new to the series may not read very far into the book. Nothing much of significance happens for a long time. Dining, touring, chatting ... a boring seance that does not succeed.... And too many of the characters, introduced earlier in Florence, just happen to all be in the same village in Italy, including one from a previous book. (I can accept one or two coincidences but this many?)
The long delay in getting to the plot is true of several of the books. The best of the series is Riddle at Gipsy's Mile (Book #4). It starts with the plot (discovery of the body) and introduces the secondary characters later. This is the way to organize a murder mystery. Not with page after page of people chatting, dining, drinking, taking a boat tour ....Get to the plot!
March 31, 2023
This is rounded up from 3.5*. Quite an enjoyable and light in tone murder mystery. Angela Marchmont is a well off lady who is single (I can’t remember if she is divorced I read the previous books years ago, but she is not a widow). She does some detective work for people but is supposed to be on holiday in Italy. A friend of hers asks for her help and she becomes embroiled in the mystery. It is a little old fashioned - reminiscent of the time of Agatha Christie, but fun nonetheless. The ending is a little unsatisfactory but it is possible that further news will come her way later. There are more books.
September 8, 2023
It is the amazing Angela Marchmont, in this installment there are a mother/daughter medium and clairvoyant. She was asked to defraud them by her friend Margaret and her husband the clergyman. I feel the mother/daughter is not fraud at all.
Then she discover a dead body with Edgar Valencourt who is a gentleman burglar/thief that first appeared in 'The Treasure at Poldarrow Point'. At that time I felt Angela fell for Edgar and in this installment, it really indicated of this. Edgar also have feelings for her. I really wish Edgar would stop being the gentleman burglar and going straight so that Angela can be with him.
ready for the next adventure of Mrs. Marchmont.
Then she discover a dead body with Edgar Valencourt who is a gentleman burglar/thief that first appeared in 'The Treasure at Poldarrow Point'. At that time I felt Angela fell for Edgar and in this installment, it really indicated of this. Edgar also have feelings for her. I really wish Edgar would stop being the gentleman burglar and going straight so that Angela can be with him.
ready for the next adventure of Mrs. Marchmont.
July 20, 2020
The return of Valencourt
A bit of a mishmash. Not sure that I honestly enjoyed it that much. There's a lot of silliness over spiritualism and some terribly unconvincing scenes with Asphodel Quinn having visions.
Angela herself is rather two faced in this novel although there's lots of random hints about her past which doesn't really seem to lead anywhere.
I didn't feel it was a particularly believable situation and don't believe that someone of such a nervous disposition would have got involved.
A bit of a mishmash. Not sure that I honestly enjoyed it that much. There's a lot of silliness over spiritualism and some terribly unconvincing scenes with Asphodel Quinn having visions.
Angela herself is rather two faced in this novel although there's lots of random hints about her past which doesn't really seem to lead anywhere.
I didn't feel it was a particularly believable situation and don't believe that someone of such a nervous disposition would have got involved.
August 10, 2018
Sixth in the series. Angela is off to the Italian Lakes region, but her holiday getaway en route to Venice, which was intended to help a friend check out the practice and possible scamming by a medium and fortune teller, gets complicated by running into a dashing, raffish man she had encountered in an earlier book, and then she discovers a dead body while on a picnic. Nice sense of culture and practice of tourism then and there.
April 12, 2020
I have given this a 4 star rating but it is a weak 4 stars as I didn't like it as much as those that went before it. I did find Angela a bit trying at times. I hope the romance either takes off or a line is drawn under it, as the on/off does tire me. Other than that, the characters were different with a religious man and wife, a spiritualist mother and daughter, and a new friend who found romance. The Italian setting didn't really come to the forefront.
June 6, 2024
A trifle disjointed
I didn't enjoy this as much as others in the series. It seemed a bit too disjointed and there were a couple of points I didn't really like,
I didn't enjoy this as much as others in the series. It seemed a bit too disjointed and there were a couple of points I didn't really like,
March 1, 2017
Romance and Mayhem
In book 6 Angela Marchmont has travelled to Italy She was planning to visit Venice when she received a telegram from Mary Ainsley and her minister husband They needed help in the town of Stresa concerning some fortune tellers that were leading his congregation astray. Angela stays longer than she wanted due to two mysterious deaths. Great story.
In book 6 Angela Marchmont has travelled to Italy She was planning to visit Venice when she received a telegram from Mary Ainsley and her minister husband They needed help in the town of Stresa concerning some fortune tellers that were leading his congregation astray. Angela stays longer than she wanted due to two mysterious deaths. Great story.
October 13, 2019
While on holiday in Italy Angela Marchmont receives a request from her friend Mary Ainsley to vist them at Stresa and investigate two spiritualists. As her husband is convinced they are defrauding people of their money. But the investigation becomes more important when a body of one of the English residents in the town is discovered dead.
Another enjoyable and well-written mystery in this series
Another enjoyable and well-written mystery in this series
January 1, 2018
Excellent series
Loved it! This whole series is just one delightful book after another. I am looking forward to reading more about Angela's adventures and hope to for a long time.
Loved it! This whole series is just one delightful book after another. I am looking forward to reading more about Angela's adventures and hope to for a long time.
June 20, 2020
I thoroughly enjoyed this adventure in Italy. Angela has romance in her life at last as well as a fascinating mystery. Edgar Valencourt is a bit dangerous for her liking, but the heart wants what the heart wants. Looking forward to the next in the series.
May 21, 2022
Not my favorite story in the series so far. It should have been an interesting backstory but it seemed to drag and didn't hold my interest. The ending was strange (maybe as life is strange) especially with a approach avoidance budding relationship.
September 14, 2017
It's a fairly solid book but rather full! and plodding.
January 28, 2019
I love these books, they are an easy read but still great stories
February 16, 2019
I like the setting in Italy, but the murder mystery was a little weak. The ending though will have me reaching for book #7.
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February 4, 2021Interesting setting and interesting characters. Also one of the few times in this series I didn't guess whodunnit. Good subplot, too. On to the next one!
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July 31, 2021
Angela marchmont
Very enjoyable read so glad that there are more of Angelas adventures to carry on reading. This lady has global adventures
Very enjoyable read so glad that there are more of Angelas adventures to carry on reading. This lady has global adventures
September 20, 2021
I have read and enjoyed a number of Clara's books. They are well written historical fiction that I would classify as cozy mysteries.
November 22, 2021
Very good addition to the series.
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