Review
The Second Rosie and McBrae Regency Mystery
After the death of her husband Lady Rosamund has retreated from London and her domineering mother to stay with her father in Westmoreland. The quiet idyll of the countryside gets to be a bit much, especially as Rosamund isn't truly mourning her late husband, so her father accepts an offer to attend a country manor house party. A party filled with playwrights and other people with alleged loose morals may be just what Rosie needs. Thinking of McBrae entirely too much, Lady Rosamund begins to see him everywhere...however, he truly is at the party, disguised as a footman. Although he's there to help solve the mystery of some petty thefts, the duo soon find themselves with a murder to investigate. A thoroughly nasty libertine houseguest is found dead. Everyone is quick to call it an accident, but will doing so allow a killer to go free?
LADY ROSAMUND AND THE HORNED GOD is a story about justice. Filled with moral implications, Lady Rosamund faces several sobering questions. Is it better to let a killer go free than allow an innocent be hanged? Should all criminals be condemned? Do some crimes have merit? Are some people better off dead? Is the aristocracy morally superior?
It's fascinating to see how Lady Rosamund is changing. She's not only becoming more liberal, her feelings for McBrae are starting to rise to the surface. Rosie is a fantastic protagonist. She's a study in opposites; allegedly worldly, but honestly naive, aristocratic, yet beginning to open her mind to the reality that the lower classes are people too, she's strong, but vulnerable. She's smart, loyal, and capable. She also has a very real fear that threatens her. As much as I love Lady Rosamund, I love McBrae even more. I especially love how we bear witness to his thoughts and feelings even though the book is told from Lady Rosamund's point of view, as highlights from his diary start each chapter.
LADY ROSAMUND AND THE HORNED GOD is a perplexing, morally complicated historical mystery that's also intelligent, humorous, and simply a darned good read. The more I read, the more invested I become in the lives of these characters. I can't wait to meet up with them again and see what happens next!
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Lady Rosamund And The Horned God - A Rosie and McBrae Mystery by Barbara Monajem
About Lady Rosamund And The Horned God
Historical Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series
Publisher - Level Best Books Number of Pages – ~300 Pages
Widowed Lady Rosamund spends the first months of her mourning in the Lake District, where it’s safe and peaceful, and murders are exceedingly rare. Luckily, she is rescued from this tedium by a house party comprised of playwrights, poets, and actors—an immoral set of persons with whom no respectable lady should associate. Even so, she hardly expected to wake in the wee hours to find one of the guests lying dead.
As if that wasn’t troublesome enough, Gilroy McBrae is at the same party, masquerading as a footman to investigate a series of thefts. Was the sudden death an accident—or murder? Almost everyone had reason to loathe their unpleasant fellow guest. Rosie must set aside her confused emotions about McBrae and work with him to find the culprit before an innocent person is accused of the crime.
About Barbara Monajem
Winner of the Holt Medallion, Maggie, Daphne du Maurier, Reviewer’s Choice and Epic awards, Barbara Monajem wrote her first story at eight years old about apple tree gnomes. She published a middle-grade fantasy when her children were young. When they grew up, she turned to writing for adults, first the Bayou Gavotte paranormal mysteries and then Regency romances with intrepid heroines and long-suffering heroes (or vice versa). Some of her Regencies have magic in them and some don’t (except for the magic of love, which is in every story she writes).
Barbara loves to cook, especially soups, and is an avid reader. There are only two items on her bucket list: to make asparagus pudding and succeed at knitting socks. She’ll manage the first but doubts she’ll ever accomplish the second. This is not a bid for immortality but merely the dismal truth. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia with an ever-shifting population of relatives, friends, and feline strays.
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Thank you for the lovely, thoughtful review! I think I like McBrae better, too. In fact, I'm totally in love with him. :) As is Rosie, although she doesn't quite understand that yet.
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by! Total crush of McBrae here!
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Book sound & looks like a great read. Would love to read & review in print format. Love the book cover
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Sounds like an exciting book.
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Sounds like a great book. Looking forward to reading it.
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ReplyDeletethanks for your review. this sounds like a fantastic read. yah for the author to put in a lot of moral questions
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