Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know (2010) Tasha Alexander

Set in ~1892

Recovering from the events of the previous book, Emily and Colin go to Normandy, to his mother’s house. Which turns out to be far more problematic than either expected.

I’m done with this series for now. The stories are intersting, the mysteries are good, and I love the settings, but every book has conflict between Colin and Emily. Something always happens to make Emily doubt Colin.

Perhaps some of that is natural, since they are still getting to know each other, but, I find it irritating. There is already a murder mystery–must we also have the mystery of what their romantic conflict will be this book? (This is why I stopped reading the Tempe Brennan series–the mysteries were marvelous, but the relationship was the SAME DAMN THING EVERY TIME. Just NO.)

Anyway.

A young woman is found brutally murdered, and it turns out that she was an inmate of a local asylum.

After the Lady Darby story also featuring a lunatic asylum, this story was lacking.

The positive was that Sebastian returned.

(W)hen I followed him as he moved into the doctor’s bedroom, he stopped me.

“No,” he said. “I will help you, Kallista, but you can’t expect access to the secret methods of my success. You might decide to turn to a life of crime and steal everything good that I want.”

I very much enjoy his character, but even getting him into the story felt forced.

I’ll continue this series, but only picking up the books on sale.
Rating: 6/10

Published by Minotaur Books

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