If there was anything that could make a Laura Wood historical romance EVEN better, it would be adding a Women’s Detective Agency!
Isobel Stanhope is used to being a wallflower, next to her beautiful and vivacious best friend, but when her father dies and she discovers he’s left her family penniless, she’s given an opportunity to use her talent for blending in to her advantage when she joins the ‘Aviary’ – a detective agency specialising in helping women who have nowhere else to turn. And Izzy is a talented agent, whether it is picking locks, picking pockets or infiltrating the criminal underworld disguised as boy. But when her latest case leads her to work with the enigmatic Duke of Roxton, who she’s been secretly crushing on, Izzy realises she’s not as invisible to him as she’d always thought.
A fantastic feminist detective story, set in Victorian London, and even featuring a couple of iconic Laura Wood characters from an earlier book. So much fun, when I got to the end I wanted to read it all over again.
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