
And Only to Deceive
Lady Emily, Book 1
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Kate Reading
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By:
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Tasha Alexander
For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife.
Emily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. There she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind.
As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated.
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Shorten the first 22 chapters, please
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I wanted to like this more than I could
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However the book does have some redeeming qualities. Emily’s character develops nicely. There are some fun descriptions of life for the aristocracy in London, Paris, Cairo and Santorini in the late 19th century. And there is a little mystery, which takes forever to develop, but eventually becomes interesting. I have hopes for Book #2.
Insipid, but I’m going to stick with it
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The mysteries get better, the romance gets ratcheted up, and the series as a whole really comes into its own around the 4th or 5th book.
If you like historical romance and cozy detective series, you'll love this! Fans of Lady Darby will enjoy!
Don't listen to the haters, this is a great series
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Plot Synopsis:
This is actually the first in a series of mystery novels about the heroine Emily.
In order to escape her obnoxious mother (who began to measure debutante Emily's waist every morning), she accepts a marriage proposal from the sandy haired Viscount Phillip Ashton. Her husband dies on an African safari 6 months after her wedding. While in full mourning, Emily spends her time in her late husband's marvelous library, reading to her heart's content. On a visit to the British Museum, she discovers that besides hunting wild game, her husband was a scholar and antiquities expert who had given fine Greek antiquities to the museum. Thus begins her intellectual adventures in Roman and Greek myths and art. After a year of deep mourning, Emily's obnoxious mother begins a campaign to get Emily remarried. To escape her mother, she travels to Paris to stay until she is out of all mourning. She has no desire to remarry since she is mistress of the very large fortune left to her by Phillip and enjoys it.
In Paris she meets all kinds of interesting people, including the artist Renoir. She also realizes she is being spied on, what would be called stalking nowadays, by a man with a scar.
This is the first novel in a series about Emily and the best friend of her late husband, a man as dark as her late husband was fair, Colin Hargreaves. The book is slow moving because it is written in a Victorian era memoir style (think Henry James) and yet I find Emily, her best friend Ivy, and her husband's friend Colin Hargreaves quite interesting, as well as the French friends she makes and French Parisian society. It is also clear that Emily is involved in a mystery left behind by her late husband's doings. Besides the man with the scar, there is the persistent appearance of members of an English Lord who are pursuing the late Viscount's papers and notes. It is important to remember that as a debutante, Emily was probably a mere 17 or 18 when she was married so she was not a woman of the world or very mature initially. The series follows her development into a real woman, one who develops intellectual curiosity and a craving for adventures unusual for a Victorian English woman.
Enjoyed reading when first published and now enjoyed listening to the audio.
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A Most Decided Lady
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Delightful!!
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One of the things I liked most about it, beside a great heroine and a tightly crafted story, is an unintimidating introduction to antiquities, some of which I knew but most I did not. It has also gotten me to search out a good translation of Homer! Who knew?!?
I love a well crafted mystery, and this certainly is one. Although I knew quickly who the bad guy was not, and did have a clue before Emily did, until the denouement I couldn't answer her biggest question. The solution was both more complicated and more simple than I had anticipated.
Can't wait to start the next Lady Emily mystery!
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Good mystery
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What made the experience of listening to And Only to Deceive the most enjoyable?
The narrator is pretty good. SO much better than the next two narrators in books 2 and 3, which I had to return b/c I could barely listen to them. This series is actually much better when read, if you have that option.Pretty good but frustrating characters
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