An Excellent Thing in a Woman, Allison Montclair
An Excellent Thing in a Woman, Allison Montclair
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An Excellent Thing in a Woman

Author: Allison Montclair

Narrator: Polly Lee

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/25/2025


Synopsis

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them!

London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are called to action when Gwen's beau Salvatore "Sally" Danielli is accused of murder!

Sally has taken a job at the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace, but when the beautiful Miss JeanneMarie Duplessis—one of the Parisian performers over for a new variety show—is found dead in the old theatre, a number of inconvenient coincidences make him Suspect No.1.

Just days earlier, Miss Duplessis had arrived at The Right Sort, desperately looking for a husband—any husband—to avoid having to return to Paris. As the plot thickens, Iris is pulled back into the clandestine circles she moved in during the war and it soon becomes apparent that to clear Sally's name, she and Gwen would need to go on the hunt for a killer once more!

About Allison Montclair

Allison Montclair grew up devouring hand-me-down Agatha Christie paperbacks and James Bond movies. As a result of this deplorable upbringing, Montclair became addicted to tales of crime, intrigue, and espionage. She now spends her spare time poking through the corners, nooks, and crannies of history, searching for the odd mysterious bits and transforming them into novels of her own. She is the author of the Sparks & Bainbridge historical mystery series, which begins with The Right Sort of Man.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ay on January 27, 2025

I do love an ongoing mystery series, where we follow the (generally interesting) lives of (extremely likeable) main characters while they solve (fun) mysteries. Would I normally want to read a story about people running a marriage bureau? Nope. That's how good this series is. We have two delightful p......more

Goodreads review by Kat on February 20, 2025

An Excellent Thing In a Woman is the 7th book in the exceptional Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery series by Allison Montclair. I've read three of the previous books, all of which were 5-stars for me. You don't need to read all the others before this one to enjoy this outing, but I highly recommend it, es......more

Goodreads review by Larry on March 09, 2025

These two women continue to make interesting stories. Although Iris and Gwen are such different personalities and backgrounds, their skills coalesce to run a matching-making business as well as an investigation team. In this book Iris's gangster boyfriend Archie has been killed and she is still in m......more

Goodreads review by Tina on February 07, 2025

Damn clever! This series always delivers, and the conclusion sets up the next installment nicely.......more