Author: Rosemary Simpson
Series: Gilded Age Mystery #8
Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman
Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/28/2023
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction, Women Sleuths
Rosemary Simpson is the author of The Seven Hills of Paradise, Dreams and Shadows, and the Gilded Age Mystery series, including What the Dead Leave Behind, Lies that Comfort and Betray, and Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and the Historical Novel Society. Educated in France and the United States, she now lives near Tucson, Arizona.
Hired after the murder of a Chinese Diplomat, Prudence and Geoffrey must solve the crime and protect the family from being kidnapped back to China where the oldest son would be beheaded for the sins of his father.......more
This book was fascinating. I really love Gilded Age mysteries and this series doesn't disappoint. In each book, the author explores environments outside of the fabulous mansions and high society. Here, a Chinese diplomat is murdered at a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in front of Pruden......more
Prudence MacKenzie and her investigative partner Geoffrey Hunter are attending the grand opening of a Chinese art exhibit at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art when the guest of honor, Chinese cultural attaché Lord Peng, is stabbed to death in front of his family and the other grandiose gues......more
The mystery in this book is ok, but no big surprises at all. Geoffrey and Prudence don't have much contact in this book so there is no real development in their relationship which is a shame. It was a bit slow overall although the highlight for me was the view into the Chinese culture of the time as......more