Just Make Believe, Maggie Robinson
Just Make Believe, Maggie Robinson
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Just Make Believe

Author: Maggie Robinson

Narrator: Gemma Dawson

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2020


Synopsis

Gloucestershire, 1925. A week-long house party in the countrywhy not? Lady Adelaide has nothing else to do, now that her year of mourning for her unfaithful husband is up and her plans to rekindle her romantic life have backfired. But when her hostess is found dead on the conservatory floor, Addie knows just who to callDetective Inspector Devenand Hunter of Scotland Yard.Dev may not want to kiss Addie again, but he's anxious to solve the crime. Who would want to kill Pamela, the beautiful wife of one of Britain's Great War heroes? Certainly not her devoted and wheelchair-bound husband, Sir Hugh Fernald. The other guests seem equally innocent and improbable.But despite all appearances, something is very wrong at Fernald Hallthere's a body buried in the garden, and the governess has fallen down the stairs to her death. Who's next? Addie and Dev must work together to stop another murder, and they have some help thanks to Rupert, Addie's late and unlamented husband. Rupert needs to make amends for his louche life on earth, and what better way to earn his celestial wings than catch a killer?

About Maggie Robinson

Maggie Robinson is a former teacher and library clerk who woke up one night absolutely compelled to create the perfect man using as many adjectives and adverbs as possible. A two-time nominee for the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award, she is the author of the Courtesan Court series, the London List series, and the Ladies Unlaced series, among others. A transplanted New Yorker and mother of four, she lives with her husband in Maine. For more information, visit www.maggierobinson.net.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kaitlyn

I'm really enjoying this series and I was lucky enough to receive a copy from the author in advance of publication. Some familiar faces reappear, some of them among the suspects, when murder disrupts a country house party, and once again Lady Adelaide is assisted in her sleuthing by Dev Hunter, the......more

I was really saddened by how much this didn't work for me. I skipped the second book in the series but none of the interpersonal relationships had really advanced beyond that book - Addie and Dev are in the same holding pattern, Addie and Rupert ditto - and the pacing was... really awkward; we see A......more