Lady Violet Investigates

The Lady Violet Mysteries, Book 1

By: Grace Burrowes

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Lady Violet Belmaine emerges from two years of mourning less than enthusiastic about resuming her place in Polite Society. She’s talked into attending a country house party by her French physician friend, Hugh St. Sevier, only to find that the house party guests are preyed upon by a mysterious thief.

Among the guests is Sebastian MacHeath, Marquess of Dunkeld. Violet once considered Sebastian her closest confidant, but war and the passing years have changed him. Nonetheless, when Sebastian’s valet, another veteran, comes under suspicion, Violet, St. Sevier, and Sebastian must work together to discover the true culprit, lest an innocent man be sent to the gallows for crimes he did not commit.

©2021 Grace Burrowes (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

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loved the details of manners, language and even finery. story was good. I very much enjoyed it

Enjoyable and well done

Great story, good twists and turns, and of course well written.

I enjoyed the narration. Quality female voice was perfect for the main character. The speed was also to my liking.

Mystery for sure

Not a romance. Wasn’t that exciting. Too many heroes. You didn’t know who she would end up with. Premise of mystery was kind of confusing. I wouldn’t listen again.

Loved the book so much I’m binging the series!

This narrator is perfection. The heroine sounds even better than I imagined her, the male voices are distinct from one another while still sounding male & the French character has just enough accent without being difficult to understand. Best of all, I forget I’m listening & get completely lost in the story without being thrown out.

And what a story! Historically accurate without anachronisms and wonderfully complex characters that suck you right in. An excellent mystery, the tension builds, and these people act like grown ups who’ve actually dealt with life and loss and disappointment. The descriptions are wonderful without getting in the way of the story, so that I feel like I’m enjoying the food with them (or not, in the case of the stale bun), smelling a man’s distinctive cologne or feeling the heroine’s impotent fury.

I absolutely adore this series and I’m binging as fast as the audiobooks are released & I can afford extra credits. I can tell I’ll be relistening simply because the world and people drawn by this author is so rich that I’ll want to experience it more than once. I love that she’s written a strong woman who can be resourceful without being any less a lady in every sense of the word. And the male characters are so intriguing. Strong without being overbearing & very much true to the time period. Fabulous entertainment & don’t be surprised if you find you’ve driven past your exit if you’re listening in the car.

Fun Regency Mystery

I disliked the lack of romance, rekindled courtship & or missed opportunity to pursue a love match. The story is so mystery oriented that it misses the parallel track of a rekindled love relationship. The Randal/Marquess adversity lacked mutual acknowledgment & resolution. The valet’s story is incomplete.