Reviews - Mystery

Sea Of Secrets
Amanda
De Wees

This gothic tale unfolds as Oriel Pembroke goes to live with her aunt, the former Duchess of Ellsmere.  She has been disowned by her father and her brother has just been killed in the Crimean War. She is welcomed into the family and develops a special bond with the young Duke Herron, who is dealing with the mysterious sudden death of his father.

Fair Weather
Barbara Gaskell
Denvil

She hears the whisper of a voice, a voice that is possibly sinister.  Ever since childhood, Molly has heard and seen things in her mind that she doesn't understand. Visions of a time long ago that seem dark, people who are poverty stricken, and that live in a troubled era.

Tessa likes her unconventional life, working part time in a mortuary and studying mortuary science, until she is called to work on the body of Dempsey Spencer, her stepfather.  A man she despised, he had just gotten out of prison the month previous, for sexually abusing her as a child.

Deadly Affair
Lucinda
Brant

Alec Halsey, career diplomat and recently titled marquess has just returned to London. At a dinner party hosted by his friend, Sir Charles Weir, one of the guests suddenly dies. With suspicions still surrounding Alec's possible involvement in the death of his brother, and now a vicar dying at his feet, Alec is thrust unwillingly into the spotlight.

Melody Moon is an author. Her series of the "Double Uglies" reflects her misfit childhood. Searching for a refuge for her young daughter after an accident, Melody buys Catalpa Hall and returns to her past. It is only after buying the old place that she realizes that the acreage includes a pond holding dark secrets.  These secrets are still able to destroy her and the happiness she may find.

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