Dinner Most Deadly

Dinner Most Deadly (2015) Sherri Cobb South

Set in London in ~1808

OK. I’m done.

Which is too bad, because I really liked the mysteries. But I despise cliff-hanger endings, and two in a row are my limit.

Lady Fieldhurst has returned from Scotland blue-deviled, so her friend Emily Dunnington has a dinner party to introduce her to some men who might be interested in becoming her lover.

Unfortunately, the man who Emily Dunnington has chosen for her next lover, Sir Reginald Montague, is despised by most of her guests (and seemingly, much of London).

“A tiresome misunderstanding, nothing more. Now we may all be easy again!”

Unfortunately, no one had been easy before, and they were even less so now.

If the murder of Sir Reginald Montague is a shock, Lady Fieldhurst is in for an even more unpleasant surprise when she learns that her rash decision to spend her time in Scotland masquerading is Mrs Pickett means she is actually married to John Pickett.

I really liked the mystery here–the murdered dinner guest, but the way the book ends not with John Pickett’s success in catching the murderer but with further upset in his relationship (or lack there of) with Lady Emily just irritates me to no end.

So I’m done, and it’s really too bad.
Rating: 5/10

Published by Five Star Publishing

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