Murder at Kensington Palace (A Wrexford and Sloane Mystery): 3

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I will agree that the climactic scene was straight from the Grade B Saturday Matinee ‘Mad Scientist’ movies. teaching them to draw, muttering motherly threats about “no jam tarts,” which McLennan affectionately bakes for them, hugging them and giving them a world of love and care and knowledge where they had none). ps I am re-reading CS Harris’s ‘Who Slays the Wicked’ in preparation for the release of her new one (“Who Speaks for the Damned”), which comes out next month. They intrigue Wrexford, the amateur chemist, who knowns that the people involved with the EOS Society are doing more than just experimenting with science about electricity.

When Charlotte Sloane's cousin is murdered in the gardens of Kensington Palace the victims twin brother is arrested. This is the third in a series, I haven't read the previous two but had no problems getting to know the characters in this book and I adore them especially the weasels and Sheffield. I’ve used up all my Hoopla borrows for the month but next month I am definitely getting the first one in this series. Oy, as if I need another historical mystery with romantic elements to follow, but this cross-genre is appealing to me … so, here I go again with Andrea Penrose’s Wrexford and Sloane Regency-set, slow-burn romance and mystery series. And while I’m still really enjoying the narrator’s presentation of this book, I did begin to struggle with this story more than the first two in the series.It's unfortunate that she's a major character, because I like so many other characters in the books. Alongside the darkness the background romance between the two main characters continues to take two steps forward and one step back. in Graphic Design, Andrea fell in love with Regency England after reading Pride and Prejudice, and has maintained a fascination with the era's swirling silks and radical new ideas throughout her writing career.

Her street persona, for when she disguises as a street urchin to sleuth and nose the truth of a murder, alternates between Magpie and Phoenix. Some of the dialogue became rather repetitive, and some phases kept cropping up again and again, which was rather off putting. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Ms Penrose likes to switch the narrative from Wrexford to Sloane in the same chapter; this didn’t present well on Audible but was great just reading the text. We spend VAST amounts of time listening to her being a complete and utter idiot about Wrexford and his motivations, on and on and on and ON, and I have simply had enough of her.

I was also disappointed to see the romance, too, follow the exact same arch we’ve seen in the previous book, with Wrexford and Sloane suddenly confessing feelings and thoughts while under duress at the conclusion of the mystery. As the narrative builds, Wrexford and Charlotte’s slow-burn romance flickers and flares, teasing the reader and making her yearn for more. All the red herrings in this one, and there were many, had been electrocuted or charred to a crisp before presentation, making the solution seem just that much farther out of reach. Charlotte lives with Wrexford’s blunt-tongued, knife-wielding cook, McClellan, and two adopted, adorable, hilarious street urchins, Raven and Hawk, aka Thomas Ravenwood Sloane and Alexander Hawksley Sloane, and affectionately dubbed “the Weasels” by Wrexford.

I had a terrible time getting the gist of the story and would tune out at times and miss big pieces of plot. It turns out the ending of book two meant nothing, and we are back to Charlotte being insecure, dishonest, rude, ungrateful, and vastly annoying with regard to Wrexford all over again in book three. morality, whether the ends justify the means, how far, how dark and how deep an experiment should be allowed to go, and whether just because something CAN be done doesn’t mean it SHOULD be done.

But there’s no evidence for Nick Locke’s innocence, while the evidence for his guilt is both gruesome and damning. For example in one of the final scenes - spoiler alert - the heroine, dressed as a man, is told to strip off her britches and shirt and put on what is described as a knee-length linen shift. After all, needs must when the devil drives – and there is absolutely a devil driving the rush to Nicky’s judgment. Penrose reveals intriguing new aspects of her protagonists’ characters and relationship in a story linked to the era’s technological and social changes.Then moments after she does so, when she is rescued, the only comment made about her bizarre attire is an observation by a cop that she is wearing men’s boots. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. In Murder at Kensington Palace by Andrea Penrose Wrexford and Sloane have another murder-mystery to solve. When Charlotte, with Wrexford’s insistent help, sets out to exonerate Nicholas, she contends with long-buried feelings about the life she left behind and how to reemerge as Lady Charlotte when she’s lived incognito as plain old Charlotte Sloane for years. For his part, Wrexford felt a bit more stagnant, with the author more unsure where to take this character beyond the basic premise of who and what he is.