Banquet of Lies

Banquet of Lies (2013) Michelle Diener (Regency London)

Set in London in 1812.

Another favorite.

“We’ve been fattening Mavis up,” Iris said, and something in the way she said it made Gigi go very still.

If this was evidence of Mavis with more meat on her bones, she must have been a walking skeleton when she’d gotten here.

There’d been deep, cold anger in Iris’s voice, and she looked across at her. Their eyes met, and Gigi felt a sense of connection bloom, their mutual anger and horror at Mavis’s suffering binding them together.

“You look like a beautiful Viking maiden. I can see you with a raven on your shoulder, riding into battle to choose who will fall and who will be spared.”

“Eh?” Iris stared at her, holding her ash-smudged hands away from her white apron.

“The Valkyries. From Norse legend. They rode horses into battle, and chose who was to fall and die.”

“Not sure I’d like to have that sort o’ responsibility.”

Characters: Giselle Barrington, Jonathan Lord Aldridge, Sir Eric Barrington, Rob, Harry, Edgars, Iris, Babs, Mavis, Durnham, Daniel Lord Dervish, Georges Bisset, Duke of Wittaker

Cover design by Laywan Kwan

Publisher: Gallery Books

Rating: 9.5/10

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