The plots and characters in too many Regency romances seem divorced from real life. In The Admiral's Penniless Bride, I found them believable. The situations they faced, the things they feared or dreaded, the way they reacted, all felt genuine.
IT'S MARRIAGE - OR THE WORKHOUSE! Sally Paul is down to her last penny. As she spends it on a cup of tea - to stave off being at the mercy of the workhouse - the last thing she expects is an offer of marriage...
from a complete stranger! Admiral Sir Charles Bright's seafaring days are over - and, according to society, that must mean he's in need of a wife! Discovering Sally's in need of a home, he offers a solution... They marry in haste - but will they enjoy their wedding night at leisure? 'A powerful and wonderfully…
This is occasionally a very funny book, partly because of Perry's writing style and partly because the main character's attitudes and outlook are both very rational and very skewed. It's impossible to approve of his former occupation and equally impossible not to sympathize with his current problems. It's also an edge-of-your-seat read.
With the police hot on his tail, an infamous hit man flees to the United States to exact revenge in this “exciting [and] suspenseful” (The Washington Post Book World) sequel to the Edgar Award winner The Butcher's Boy.
“A bravura performance.”—Chicago Tribune
He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing…
A reader can sink into the world of Three Pines and wish to live there at least temporarily. Then there's the mystery, which is fascinating and weird. I could not guess how it would end.
Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.
It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should return.
But something has.
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the…
Ellen Cuthbert’s husband, Randolph, is now the Earl of Keswick’s heir. Their marriage is a sham, and Randolph’s mistress, Lydia, is present at the house party. When she is found murdered in a locked room, all the evidence seems to point to Ellen. And how could the murderer have escaped the locked room except by witchcraft? Sir Hugh accompanies his cousin, a magistrate, to the scene of the murder. They investigate, appalled to find their childhood friend Ellen appears to be the chief suspect. Hugh’s lack of prospects years ago prevented their marriage. Now if he cannot find the real murderer, there may be only one final service he can perform for Ellen to spare her a slow death at the end of the hangman’s rope.
