Charlotte Holmes is at it again, posing as the front for her very sick brother, Sherlock, in this, the second Lady Sherlock book by Sherry Thomas, A Conspiracy in Belgravia. Mostly dealing with rather mundane cases, that changes when she is tasked with finding a lost love. Both parties are married to others, but for the past many years they have had a rendezvous of sorts and now one of the two has not appeared. Add to this an illegitimate half-brother and a very strange marriage proposal and you have quite the read! Great period details.

Death in Dark Blue is the second in the Writer's Apprentice Mystery series by Julia Buckley. Good news is, a wife once thought to have been a murder victim has been found ... well, seen would be more like it. No one has had actual contact in any form with her for more than a year. And pictures indicate she is expecting. Is she being held against her will? And what is the connection when her best friend turns up dead in Blue Lake? A nice follow up to the first book.

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