Review: Bright Young Dead
Bright Young Dead by Jessica Fellowes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the second novel in The Mitford Murders series by Jessica Fellowes.
This is set in the 1920s and captures the period with dancing and Jazz clubs, flapper girls and the young aristocrats having fun.
These young people were a media sensation at the time with famous treasure hunts, showing off their excesses.
Louisa Cannon works for the Mitford family in Oxfordshire and is often a chaperone to the Mitford girls. Louisa finds herself in the exciting gaudy world of Nancy and Pamela Mitford and on the young Pamela's 18th birthday party there is a treasure hunt that ends with the death of Adrian Curtis.
The housemaid, Dulcie, is arrested for Adrian’s murder and is imprisoned awaiting trial. Louisa is certain Dulcie did not murder him and and is determined to find out the truth.
Jessica Fellowes has written a thrilling historical mystery that bristles with descriptions of the era and society at that time.
This is a bubbly, fizzing, sparkling champagne of a read with believable characters charlston-ing out of the 1920s. Historical fiction with crime, murder and mystery thrown in.
I would like to thank the Author/the Publishers/NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a fair and honest review
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the second novel in The Mitford Murders series by Jessica Fellowes.
This is set in the 1920s and captures the period with dancing and Jazz clubs, flapper girls and the young aristocrats having fun.
These young people were a media sensation at the time with famous treasure hunts, showing off their excesses.
Louisa Cannon works for the Mitford family in Oxfordshire and is often a chaperone to the Mitford girls. Louisa finds herself in the exciting gaudy world of Nancy and Pamela Mitford and on the young Pamela's 18th birthday party there is a treasure hunt that ends with the death of Adrian Curtis.
The housemaid, Dulcie, is arrested for Adrian’s murder and is imprisoned awaiting trial. Louisa is certain Dulcie did not murder him and and is determined to find out the truth.
Jessica Fellowes has written a thrilling historical mystery that bristles with descriptions of the era and society at that time.
This is a bubbly, fizzing, sparkling champagne of a read with believable characters charlston-ing out of the 1920s. Historical fiction with crime, murder and mystery thrown in.
I would like to thank the Author/the Publishers/NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a fair and honest review
View all my reviews
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