Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

After all the heavy books I’ve been reading lately, I felt the need to dip back into genre fiction for a while. I’m glad that I chose Tasha Alexander’s delightfully genre-breaking book, And Only to Deceive, the first book in the Lady Emily series of historical mysteries. From the very first page And Only to Deceive upsets genre expectations. Emily, Lady Ashton, is newly widowed when we met her. She and her husband were married for only a few months before Philip went on safari. A few months after that, he was dead. Now, Emily has to mourn him as much as society feels is appropriate—all while trying to solve a mystery about some faked antiques and fend off new marriage proposals. In the London of 1890, this is a full plate for any woman, no matter how clever...

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