I finished book two of the Lady Darby series even though it had more pages to read than the first book. I had to go back to make sure it didn’t have less pages, but it did not.
Mortal Arts, takes place a few months after the first book concludes. Adding more insight to Kiera Darby’s interactions with close friends. We delve more into her short time before her marriage to Sir Anthony & her artistic background.
This mystery allows her to rejoin with Sebastion Gage on the disappearance of a young girl in the nearest village. But also having Kiera defend a close friend she thought long gone.
I feel this story is a successful sequel to the first book and a good bridge between book one and three in the series. The author explores medical practices of mind. Especially for this time period for the Napoleonic wars are heavily mentioned throughout the book and the stigma to those who returned from it.
This one was a little easier to figure from some of the clues laid out in the first few chapters. Again, this was much shorter and really to be a bridge between the first two books. Thus, I was ahead of our main detectives before they reached the conclusion. Which was good for it allowed me to enjoy other aspects of the world building Huber is laying out for us.
It says #384, but the whole story is #370. I’m not counting the historical notes (which are very interesting to read) & the preview for the next book. As a preference I don’t read the teaser for I like to go in fresh.
As Death Draws Near, the fifth novel in Anna Lee Huber’s Lady Darby Mystery Series, started off on an interesting foot. We have a sudden summons to Ireland, the return of a troublesome character from the first book, and a sensitive significance of religion as the tensions bubble between Protestant and Catholics. Unfortunately, it didn’t reach the heights it could’ve for me.
I felt that there was…
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top: deputy sybille la roux (fc5) having another bad day | jonah seed (fc5) scheming and about to feed his snakes dinner | kentucky burbage (c*d) getting into a fight and loving every second of it
middle: paola orsini (uncharted) suffering in scotland | ari vasquez-sullivan (uncharted) taking in the beauty of a lost city despite her bloody nose | darby wells (tow) looking cute and admiring the stars
bottom: katherine vogel (rdr2) as a proto-disney princess | henrietta graves (rdr2) totally not holding a vial of poison | cwenhild (ac: valhalla) presenting eivor with some medicinal flowers
What a sweet little novella to divulge into an aspect of the series that definitely couldn’t have anything larger attached to it. A Pressing Engagement by Anna Lee Huber is the novella set after A Study of Death which ties up some of the more relevant plot points from its predecessor. I’m not being sarcastic by the way, I truly believe the best way to tackle this wedding was to let it stand on…