Murder in Westminster, Vanessa Riley
Murder in Westminster, Vanessa Riley
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Murder in Westminster

Author: Vanessa Riley

Narrator: Chanté McCormick

Unabridged: 10 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/30/2022


Synopsis

Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail's skin color and her mother's notorious past have earned her a certain reputation among the ton, and no amount of wealth or status will eclipse it.

Abigail can't divulge that she was attending a secret pro-abolition meeting at the time of the murder. To her surprise, Henderson offers her an alibi. Though he and Juliet were long estranged, and she had a string of lovers, he feels a certain loyalty to his late wife. Perhaps together, he and Abigail can learn the truth.

Abigail, whose marriage to Lord Worthing was not a love match, knows well how appearances can deceive. For all its surface elegance, London's high society can be treacherous. Yet who in their circle would have killed Juliet, and why? Taking the reins of her life in a way she never has before, Abby intends to find out—but in the process she will uncover more danger than she ever imagined . . .

About Vanessa Riley

Vanessa Riley is an award-winning author of historical romance, mystery, and fiction novels featuring realistic multicultural communities and powerful persons of color. To fuel her interest in the Regency and early-Victorian eras, she made time for attending renaissance fairs and consuming period novels and films while obtaining her PhD in mechanical engineering and a master's in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University, as well as a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Penn State University. A frequent speaker at literary, women's, and STEM events, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her military husband and teenage kid.


Reviews

Murder in Westminster is the first in a new historical mystery series featuring a Black leading lady: Lady Worthing. This murder begins with the death of a philandering wife, but other bodies begin to drop quite quickly. There are also sideplots involving Lady Worthing's involvement in an abolition......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on February 04, 2023

This is the first book in a series, but I have to admit it felt like it was book 2 or 3. I think it has a lot of potential to be a good series. I really like that our amateur sleuth is a young, black, woman whose other hobby is trying to get the abolition movement to progress. If all of that wasn’t......more

Goodreads review by No Apology Book Reviews on August 29, 2022

Thank you to Vanessa Riley, Tantor Audio, and NetGalley for allowing me to listen to a free ARC in exchange for an honest review. I feel meh about this book. My biggest issue with it was that, bizarrely, it often felt like I was missing information--it felt like the fourth or fifth book in the series......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on April 17, 2022

I received a copy from NetGalley and this is my freely given opinion. I really enjoyed this murder mystery. Vanessa Riley really set the atmosphere in the opening pages, when you meet Juliet Henderson, the estranged wife of Stapleton Henderson. There is quite a dramatic entrance of Juliet into her hu......more

Goodreads review by Kelsie on June 25, 2022

Murder in Westminster by Vanessa Riley is book one in her Lady Worthing historical mystery series. Vanessa Riley has gifted us with a great new female protagonist, in Abigail Carrington Monroe, Lady Worthing. This character is fully developed, though some others seem a little one dimensional. In fac......more