As always I love anything by Amanda Quick and this book did
not disappoint. Garden of Lies is a
novel full of mystery and romance and I loved it from beginning to end.
Ursula Kern runs a distinguished secretarial agency and when
one of her employees ends up dead she decides to go and investigate to find out
the truth. She inserts herself as a secretary and offers to be Lady Fullbrook’s
new stenographer. Lady Fullbrook fancies
herself a poet and doesn’t have time to write the lines herself so she uses a
stenographer to take the lines down for her but Lady Fullbrook has a secret
that she must keep and her former assistant learned that secret and paid for
it.
Slater Roxton, who is an archeologist and adventurer is
still recovering from his accident where he was trapped and wasn’t sure he was
going to make it out alive. He has come
back home and meets Ursula and finds out that they are both investigating the
same thing. He is looking for information on the Olympus club and through her
investigations Ursula has been led to the same place. Slater doesn’t want
Ursula involved but she leaves him no choice.
Together they go on an adventure that could get them killed
but they uncover the truth and discover secrets about one another and find that
they are quite good together.
This is one of the many fascinating mysteries set in
Victorian England that I absolutely adore.
Amanda never disappoints in her stories which are always full of mystery
and romance.
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