A Most Intriguing Lady: The instant Sunday Times bestseller! The most captivating historical romance of intrigue and scandal for 2023

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The book proceeds to focus heavily on the society crimes they solve together and on female empowerment, which makes for such a fascinating read.

Convincente, soprattutto grazie all’attenta ricostruzione storica e all’atmosfera che solo chi è vissuto in determinati ambienti può conoscere a fondo. A lady detective, and a spymaster, set in the Victorian era, where feminism is just starting to emerge.Here our heroine is Lady Margaret’s overlooked younger sister, the straight-from-central-casting spirited Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, underestimated yet determined to fulfil her own unique destiny – which has become such a persistent 21st-century trope that future generations won’t believe for a moment that women were ever oppressed. During her first case, she meets Colonel Walter Trefusis who is convincing her Father (the Duke) to back his new department of secret intelligence (he is a SPY! But I was really happily surprised by the quality of the prose and more so by the atmospheric story itself which was not only rich but pulled me in all sorts of unexpected places.

Anyhoo, Lady Mary is not only a skilled gymnast and a crack shot but turns out to be quite the drawing room detective, solving domestic mysteries pertaining to lost brooches and irregular charity outgoings. He supports her when a guest at her parents home, Drumlanrig claims that her brooch was stolen (it turns out that she knew where her brooch was all along).I'm a fan of Miss Scarlet and the Duke and was hoping for something in a similar vein, but was sorely disappointed. Tortured by memories of combat, Walter, like Mary, lives a double life, with a desk job in Whitehall providing a front for his role in the British Intelligence Service.

I wish I had read the author’s historical note at the back first as it clarified the background in a combined fictional and real story.Written in the vein of a traditional historical romance story, this is like slipping on a comfortable pair of slippers and curling up with a mug of hot chocolate. Lady Mary does not allow the rigid conventions and expectations of her time to stifle her colourful personality and sharp intellect, but instead embarks on a double life, using her natural detective skills to great success. Amongst all the limitations and expectations placed upon women at that time, The Duchess of York has played around with the facts and created some what of a sleuth with her heroine, Lady Mary. We are repeatedly told how independent and ingenious Mary is, but she comes across as whiny, and woe-is-me.

She is still very hurt and a bit bitter about him leaving her 3 years earlier (though they weren't really in a relationship at the time-they hadn't even kissed). Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you. This was so easy to read and i ended up turning the pages effortlessly, some books I feel are very complicated and you can get lost and lose track of the characters but this wasn’t one of them. He meanwhile has been working as an intelligence agent, which is part of his role as a retired colonel.She did marry Colonel Walter Trefusis, who was 13 years older than her, but that is all that is currently known. A most intriguing lady follows Lady Mary Douglas Montagu Scott and Walter Trefusis, Colonel Trefusis (Tre). But the melding of two distinct genres doesn’t quite work; although both are predicated on tension, a romance requires stronger characterisation, a detective story demands more pace. With Lady Mary’s great observation skills and Tre’s connections they go on a journey solving crimes of stolen money, jewellery and documents.