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• Instruments of Darkness
• Imogen Robertson
• English
• 10 November 2020
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Imogen Robertson  4 Free download Download ☆ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook  Imogen Robertson characters Instruments of Darkness Es before those who stray from societys expectations That same day Alexander Adams is killed in a London music shop leaving his young children orphaned His death will lead back to Sussex and an explosive secret that has already destroyed one family and threatens many others I love an intricate plot and without sounding debauched Multiple murders Throw in murders committed over than one generation Yes that will do it I m giving this book 45 stars despite some minor missteps for sucking me in for wanting by this author and from the characters Crowther mysterious gentleman anatomist and his side kick Westerman Commodore s no nonsense handsome wife with their on page chemistry did I just coin a term Probably not and for readability Additional thumbs up for than one villain all with varying degrees of sympathetic stories Minor missteps women in this book are decidedly too modern too bold for the late 18th century Georgian of my knowledge it felt as though perhaps it should have been set in the late 19th century

Imogen Robertson  4 Free download Download ☆ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook  Imogen Robertson characters Instruments of Darkness Et Westerman has felt the Halls menace long before she happens upon a dead man bearing the Thornleigh arms The grim discovery cries out for justice and she persuades reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther to her cause much against his better judgement; he knows a dark path li Tension builds from the moment Mrs Westerman genteel proprietress of Caveley Park forces her acuaintance on reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther wealthy man of secrets and possessor of many strange and distasteful objects in search of his help in dealing with the death of a stranger in her copseIt doesn t let up It ratchets up every time Mrs Westerman or Mr Crowther are on stage There are flashbacks to Mrs Westerman s neighbor Lord Hugh Thornleigh in combat during the American conflictthese aren t immediately obviously relevant to the story and I think I d ve recommended the author introduce them differently than her editor did but have patienceand introduce us to Claver Wicksteed then an Army procurement officer and now steward of Thornleigh the seat of the Earls of Sussex Then we meet the Countess of Sussex and our central cast is completeThe body count rises as it must in a mystery and the characters begin to see that they re engaged in a grisly gavotte around one central puzzle How low can a human being sink regardless of high birth and how can justice seem so far from justLike all good mystery writers Robertson takes us round the houses by changing the angle of view several times She s very good at this What seems awful becomes right and good what seems reliably good stinks like old fish before she s done with us Fear not The wise and the just are rewarded Just that they re also made to get dirty in the processThere are first novel issues with the book of course like the Parthenon being described as a round building in Rome PANTHEON and the persistent misunderstanding of how one addresses Earls Countesses and their offspring Earls are Lord Name of earldom their wives Lady Name of earldom unless that countess is the daughter of a fellow earl or higher in which case she s ALWAYS Lady Firstname no matter who she s married to sons and heirs of earls are Viscounts and addressed as Lord Name of viscounty even when very young younger sons are Lord Family name and daughters of earls are Lady Firstname all their lives etc etc Most of this is the editor s fault The author should be able to rely on him or her to catch these sorts of factual oopsiesStill and allthe pleasures of reading this book are many and evil chortle you ll all have to wait until at least 2011 to find out cause the book ain t available here yet I borrowed mine from our own SuzanneChatterbox so there nyahBut it s recommended Really and truly Too good to miss

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Imogen Robertson  4 Free download Download ☆ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook  Imogen Robertson characters Instruments of Darkness Daphne du Maurier meets CSI in this exhilarating debut Thornleigh Hall seat of the Earl of Sussex dominates its surroundings Its heir is missing and the once vigorous family is reduced to a cripple his whore and his alcoholic second son but its power endures Impulsive Harri This book would have gotten 5 stars from me if not for the revelation of WhoDunnit Let this be a lesson to authors The first 56ths of the book were wonderful A nicely intricate mystery set in the English countryside and London involving missing heirs blackmail and so on And a great time frame 1780 Not RegencyI really enjoyed our investigators and the apparent bad guy was appropriately slimy But the revelations at the endduring the climactic confrontationhad me going WTF Where did that come fromHere s hoping the next one has all the kinks ironed out