Deadly Affair: A Georgian Historical Mystery: Alec Halsey Mystery, Book 2 (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
Career diplomat Alec Halsey has been elevated to a marquessate he doesn't want. His lover has decided she won't marry him after all. What's more, the suspicion that he murdered his brother still lingers in London drawing rooms. So returning to London after seven months' seclusion may have been a mistake.
Alec's foreboding deepens when a nobody vicar drops dead at a party-political dinner, he witnesses the very public humiliation of an up-and-coming portrait painter, and his rabble-rousing uncle Plantagenet is bashed and left for dead in a laneway. When the vicar's true identity is revealed, Alec suspects the man was poisoned. But who would want a seemingly harmless man of God murdered, and why?
Lucinda Brant's Alec Halsey mysteries explore the darker side of her deliciously romantic 18th century world. Along with trademark wit and high drama there are deeper subplots and even quirkier characters that will have you shuddering and laughing in equal measure!
2012 Australian Romance Readers Awards finalist
Customer Reviews
Review for eBook
Another interesting whodunnit.
Now elevated to the peerage but uneasy in that role, Alec returns to London after a period in the country trying to put his estate in order. His absence has allowed rumours to grow that he murdered his brother and so when a guest, next to whom he was sitting at a dinner party, is poisoned, Alec is the prime suspect. Any love interest is very minor. Note: Although in many ways this follows on from the previous book, it can be read as a standalone.
I read this as part of the Alec Halsey Mysteries Boxset 1-3.
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