J. Quill is safe with the Earl of Wrexford, she's ill prepared for the rippling effects sharing the truth about her background has cast over their relationship.

In the end, the most winning aspect of Penrose’s wonderful series is the conclusion Charlotte and Wrexford come to together and apart, that love is primary, makes life worth living, and deserves our greatest care and protection. Andrea Penrose masterfully weaves the numerous plotlines of Murder at Kensington Palace into a scintillating whole. 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.The last half of each book, in particular, follows a very predictable train of events that was fairly tiring to retread once again here. In the meanwhile, Devlin expiates his demons, many but not all of which he acquired while serving in France during the Napoleonic Wars, by solving murders – generally the kind of murders that no one in the halls of power want solved. Raven and Hawk are funny, smart, and vulnerable in how much they love Charlotte and both love and are in awe of Wrexford.

Charlotte is certain that this accusation is as false as the one that brought Wrexford to her door in the first book in this series. Indeed, the characters are likeable and have me well vested from the servants to our hero and heroine.Series fans will enjoy revisiting the lively cast of characters, while historical fiction readers will be satisfied by the immersive, richly detailed mystery. James loves recording audiobooks and is delighted to have had the opportunity to narrate such a variety of magnificent authors, from Seneca through Max Hastings and Antony Beevor, to superlative fiction by J. But when her cousin is murdered and his twin brother is accused of the gruesome crime, Charlotte immediately turns to Wrexford for help in proving the young man's innocence. Charlotte is a widow, who had run away to Italy with her art instructor and left her aristocratic family behind.

This was the first time I have read anything by Andrea Penrose, and I have to say I did enjoy it, but with certain reservations. 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). The present volume was so satisfying, however, that it made me an insta-fan and regretful not to have discovered it from the get-go. And as the slowest slow burn romance inches a few steps forward, I'm ready to find out what happens in the next book! But then, not knowing what to do about or with Charlotte Sloane, AKA the brilliant satirical artist A.

Also, in a direct contradiction to my concerns over the second book where I worried that the romance had been too rushed, here, the author fell into the exact opposite problem.

Her wonderfully disparate and loveable found-family are expanded by real relatives as they work to uncover events to find the murderer - Lady Peake is certainly going to add some enjoyable ascerbic wit to this group of C19th Scoobies!

This book is very suspenseful and takes many turns, as the clues point first to one person, then another. I liked the second book, and was thrilled with the way it ended as I (foolishly) assumed that the author was going to dispense with all the interpersonal idiocy from Charlotte. Note: “The earl settled himself on the sofa, all well-tailored broad shoulders and long-legged elegance.