The Unforgiving Eye
Sequel to Hidden in the Heart
by Beth Andrews
Anybody who has read Hidden in the Heart (also
reviewed on this site) will remember irrepressible innkeeper, John Savidge, and his intrepid bride-to-be, Lydia.
Now both are married, and returning from their honeymoon to their grand new home in Sussex. Before they can do this,
they must first visit Mrs. Wardle-Penfield’s goddaughter, Portia Leverett; but when they arrive at Fallowfield it is
to find that there has been a recent death...by murder. Sir Benedict Stanbury has been foully done to death in his
own summerhouse, and a stable lad has been arrested for the crime. But Portia insists that he is not guilty, so the
Savidges proprose that they stay for three days and uncover the real culprit.
This one is a lot of fun! It is not that often that a series changes genre, but this one has made the jump from
romance to whodunit. Romance fans might not care for this, but anybody who loves a good house party murder mystery
cannot help but be enchanted. It reads rather as though P G Wodehouse had decided to write Regencies with Agatha
Christie plots, if you can imagine that. It works very well, with everybody in the house up to something, and
nothing quite the way it seems. I enjoy a good Regency romance very much, but there are a good many authors writing
in this genre and nobody else I can think of doing anything like this, so I do hope that Ms Andrews pens another
Savidge adventure. And another, and another... |
The Book |
Robert Hale |
30 May 2008 |
Hardback |
0709085720 / 9780709085720 |
Historical Mystery / 1818, Hertfordshire, England |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2008 |
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