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Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Nobody's Sweetheart Now: The First Lady Adelaide Mystery | Maggie Robinson
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A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in the passenger seat. With the house now Addie's, needed improvements in hand, and a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of Rupert to turn up! Not in the flesh, but in - actually, as a - spirit. Rupert has to perform a few good deeds before becoming welcomed to heaven - or, more likely, thinks Addie, to hell. Before Addie can convince herself she's not completely lost her mind, a murder disrupts her careful seating arrangement. Which of her twelve houseguests is a killer? Her mother, the formidable Dowager Marchioness of Broughton? Her sister Cecilia, the born-again vegetarian? Her childhood friend and potential lover, Lord Lucas Waring? Rupert has a solid alibi as a ghost and an urge to detect. Enter Inspector Devenand Hunter from the Yard, an Anglo-Indian who is not going to let some barmy society beauty witnessed talking to herself derail his investigation. Something very peculiar is afoot at Compton Court and he's going to get to the bottom of it - or go as mad as its mistress trying.
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humouress
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I‘m not sure how the ghost part works; he can move things and seems to read her mind

humouress Note to self: don‘t read this one in the middle of the night on an empty stomach. It‘s making me hungry. 3mo
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Amie
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Fun historical mystery set in 1920s. Lady Adelaide, a young widow, throws a weekend house party at the country estate she inherited from her husband. Two people are murdered, and Addie is being haunted by her husband's very annoying ghost who helps her solve the mystery.

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JazzFeathers
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Pickpick

Well, it's between a pick and a so-so.
It is very well written, with interesting characters, who act realistically. As a story, l really liked it.

As a mystery... so-so. The story is full of red herrings which sometimes felt forced and incongruent. And the ending was very unfulfilling, at least for me. Felt like the author chose the most unlikely suspect and gave them a reason good enough to close the story.

The ghost was quite unnecessary.

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JazzFeathers
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So then. I've just decided l'm not doing any more challenges. I'm useless at them.
This is my pitiful result for the #NetGalleyReviewathon l went for 4 books, started 3, finished none.

I am going to finish at least two. But still...

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JazzFeathers
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#NetGalleyReviewathon

Only read two chapters yesterday night, but it sounds promising.

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JazzFeathers
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#NetGalleyReviewathon update.

Foreign Bodies is quite good, but now l need a more involving read. Anthology are a bit tricky like that.
I will finish it, but now l want to try one of the other novels.

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I was hoping to finish this tonight, but I don't think it's going to happen. Sigh, what a Monday.

LeahBergen This sounds like a fun one! 5y
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esurient
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Hah! This was fun! Cozy mystery, delightfully rotten cast of suspects, and any romantic elements very nicely constrained. I want a second book. (Maybe come fall?)

esurient (My last previous books have had a lot of sex, one in exacting detail, and this one building a slow burn was an excellent change of pace.) 6y
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So far, we have a dead body, a ghost (not the same person), an English rose widow, a POC detective, and two or maybe three meddling families, in interwar Britain. I think I've read a grand total of one other romance in a British setting with a brown hero, and I think that was a Milan.

rwmg In that case, may I recommend 6y
esurient @rwmg Oo, I haven't read any of Charles. Thanks! 6y
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esurient
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#pricedrop! Oh, sales are so hard to resist.

esurient I really hope it's better than Murder at Maypole Maner: 6y
esurient So far there's a snarky ghost. Yay! 6y
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MaGoose
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I just couldn't get into this book, right now. So, I don't have an opinion one way or the other. I may try again in the future.

rubyslippersreads ❤️ the cover. 6y
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MaGoose
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Currently reading -
1. Just starting Dangerous Talent
2. Continuing Nobody's Sweetheart Now for a review for www.netgalley.com
3. Just starting At the Water's Edge for a buddy read with @Eggbeater

#buddyread #31bookpics (1. Currently reading) @howjessreads

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howjessicareads
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And now; another title to probably review for Shelf Awareness. This time in the gymnastics lobby. Little one is in class, and big one is snacking / reading her own book (Danny, the Champion of the World).

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MaGoose
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@TheReadingMermaid #bookaweek

My to-read list for this challenge will be:
1. Dark Tide Rising by Anne Perry

2. The Book Blogger Platform by Barbara Drozdowich (I just started this today but will hold off continuing until the beginning of the challenge)

3. The Fall of a Sparrow by Dan Scannell

4. Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene

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MaGoose
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I have several books going - Nobody's Sweetheart Now by Maggie Robinson, Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit, Faint Praise by Gail Pool and The Book Blogger Platform by Barbara Drozdowich.
@TheReadingMermaid #Whatareyoureading #Wednesday

MaGoose @Stephuhhnieee Thanks for letting me know! I'll stay away from the Tolkien Christmas book as a gift for Amber. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. 6y
MotionChickness @MaGoose thanks for replying! I‘m sorry if that was super weird! I would just hate for someone to get the same book from two people at the same time! 😂 merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well! 😊 6y
MaGoose @Stephuhhnieee 👌👍💜 I know, I'd be somewhat let down if I received the same book as a gift from two different people. I'm glad you were got in touch with me. 6y
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