A Suspicious Affair

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Your display name should be at least 2 characters long. At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information. You submitted the following rating and review. Marisol was heavily pregnant amidst all the turmoil over her husband's death. He was caught in bed with the neighbour, which the rags played up. The angle was Marisol killed her husband after catching him cheating on her. Marisol couldn't have cared less but the people speculated that she was the murderer. The murderer was no one.

He died by accident. The servant was wrestling the gun away from him.

The servant was demanding he do right by the maid he raped. The servant, prior to this, had been asking the husband for permission to marry the maid. The husband declined every time. What's more, he decided to rape the maid. Only then did he give permission for the servant to marry the maid, because she was pregnant. When the servant spat in the husband's face, the husband drew a gun. The servant was wrestling the husband to point the gun in another direction when it fired and killed the husband.

The story was a story about the cast of characters all with sufficient motive to murder the husband. The inspector was investigating everybody from the foppish brother, the disgruntled neighbour, and the wronged wife. Each of the characters were introduced well and the story beyond their affiliation with the husband blossomed from there.

Marisol's story was being a protective mother and being vigilant about possible harms. She was paranoid over the murderer being at large and the possibility of her baby being attacked.

Kimbrough's story was taking his duty very seriously. He took over the guardian role and was very hands on. It helped that he was falling for Marisol and she him but it isn't explicitly stated until near the end. Marisol's brother was a discontented youth who finds his way after Kimbrough gives guidance in the right direction. He turned into a heroic soldier and Kimbrough's sister takes notice. The inspector solves the murder and does a satisfactory job, enough to get a promotion. Jun 28, Lou rated it really liked it Shelves: This was a slight change from Metzger's usual successful regency romance formula, with the addition of a murder mystery that continued throughout the book with no clear villain, and the marvellous extended Dimm family helping their Bow Street Runner patriarch solve various mysteries, and being found jobs in the Kimberley and Pendenning households along the way.

Nov 27, Susannah Carleton rated it really liked it. Love finds a way despite the many obstacles along the way. A darling story with great characters and amusing dialogue.

Of course, I have read only Metzger for the past two months and my mind is mush. Jun 06, Elen rated it it was ok Shelves: At first I was totally hooked. A bow street runner narrator. And he's actually funny! The great thing is he's not just an introductory material; he actually sets things in motion and appears throughout the story. How he planted his various relatives at Berkshire was hilarious. And that Boynton guy was interesting, all the flowery talks that got me laughing. There were some other good points but I forgot because..

He's the ex-soldier-gentleman-farmer type. You know what that means in the genre. He's the rough gem of the countryside, a down to earth sort of a man and an honest worker. Of course he's well muscled and ruggedly handsome.

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Well not exactly an original as Dimm had claimed in regency england there must have been hundreds of titles all vacant for handsome war heroes , but he's a nice sort of guy. So I kind of liked him. And that's where I began feeling a little unsatisfactory. So we get an abuse survivor. And she's also a diamond of the first water. And she's also haughty and friendly at the same time, regal but down to earth. Dignified but might binge a little due to pregnancy, how cute. Real sophisticated but loves countryside. And to make her even more perfect, the other girl has to be ruthlessly slammed and shamed.

She is of course, a snob. She's heartless she doesn't like animals and babies! By the time the other girl by the name of Evelina was chatting with the dowager, I hated Marisol.

I was slightly annoyed when she was being hysteric about her son. But she's a mother. That can't be helped. She grew up watching dissolute gentlmen, so if she wants to accuse everyone of being a potential murderer and awakes everyone at night for bloody nothing, we can understand that. However what I can't take is that she's to be grossly idolized. There're only so many ewww and ugh faces I can make before I'll rip Marisol out of the page and destroy the book Mar 07, Annette rated it it was amazing. Marisol is a new and pregnant widow. Her husband the Duke was murdered right outside their house.

He had been in their carriage having intimate relations with the next door neighbor. Carlinn is an earl who had a loud public argument with the late Duke over land the Duke had stolen from him. Guardian of several "orphans" in actuality the illegitimate children of the ton! To make matters worse, the infuriatingly handsome Lord Coe had accused them all of blackmailing his sister, whose child resided with them!

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But a decade at war has transformed this sensual rake, and what he wants now is only to live a life on his own terms.

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I found that I could not appreciate the narrator. A Suspicious Affair By: Barbara Metzger Narrated by: Free with day trial Membership details Membership details 30 days of membership free, plus 1 audiobook and 2 Audible Originals to get you started.