This is book #2 in the Lizzie Martin series. Lizzie knows she must find a new source of employment soon as the situation as a companion to her late godfather's widow becomes untenable. She finds herself in a temporary position, this time as a companion to a young woman living with two aunts. Another murder mystery ensues. Who is sane and who isn't??? ( )

What an interesting story! Lizzie is asked to be the companion of Lucy, a 17 yr. old girl, living with two older aunts in Devon after marrying an unsuitable young man who the family has sent away to India. She has given birth to a baby girl and has been told the baby died. She doesn’t believe this and has told Lizzie that the dead baby wasn’t her baby. Plenty of suspicious people and goings on and then Lucy discovers the dead body of a gypsy. A family cover-up begins and Lizzie sends for her friend, Inspector Ross to investigate. ( )

Ein tolles Buch und eine sagenhafte Sprecherin. Die Figuren sind gnz entzückend und werden durch die grandiose Leistung der Vorleserin zu ganz eigenem Leben erweckt. Herrlich. ( )

I've enjoyed many of Ann Granger's books without finding them particularly exceptional - and this was pretty much the same as ever. I like the characters - a forthright Victorian woman and her Scotland Yard boyfriend - and I end up thinking the plot is pretty good too. But somewhere along the line nothing is really impressing me and making me want to pick up another one all the same. I like the Fran Varady series much better.

I am completely neutral about this book. I don't hate it, but I'm not absolutely sure that I like it, My problem is that I just couldn't care about the characters in the book, and as this is a murder mystery that is important. The setting did feel authentic though. ( )