google-site-verification=UIzFxJgAeHETPFTgVn-gZE7ZoXjOhARGl1sfaNb2gjY Death by Misadventure | Tasha Alexander
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A COLD HIGHLAND WIND

Lady Emily #18
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In the latest installment of Tasha Alexander’s New York Times bestselling series, Lady Emily must solve a string of high stakes “accidents” while trapped in a lavish villa in the Bavarian Alps.

In the winter of 1906, Lady Emily and husband Colin are invited to the opulent home of Baroness Ursula von Duchtel in the Bavarian alps. Outside is a mountainous winter wonderland with a view of Mad King Ludwig’s fairy tale castle. Inside, the villa hosts a magnificent but eclectic art collection―as well as an equally eclectic collection of fellow guests, among them a musician, an art dealer, a coquette from the demi-monde, and Kaspar, the Baroness’ boorish son-in-law, whom, it begins to appear, someone wants dead.

Almost forty years earlier, Niels, a young German lord, sings to himself in the forest surrounding those same alps, capturing the attention of a not-yet-mad King Ludwig. Niels and the king become fast friends, their relationship deepening into something more as their time together stretches on. But while King Ludwig is content to live out a fantasy where their responsibilities don't matter and the outside world doesn't affect them, Niels knows that their bliss cannot last forever...

Decades later, Emily continues to investigate Kaspar's increasingly lethal “mishaps" when tragedy strikes, ensnaring the guests in a web of fear and suspicion. It’s up to Emily to sift through old secrets and motivations, somext Settingse stretching far into the past, to unmask the killer.

"A mystery that keeps you guessing while you enjoy the historical retrospective on the Mad King."Kirkus

“To begin with, a small confession: While reading Tasha Alexander’s latest Lady Emily mystery, I happened upon the word “snarky.” As her novels are written in the vernacular of the time (in this case,1906), “snarky” seemed to me to be very out of place. So I Googled the word, only to discover that its first recorded usage was in the year (wait for it . . .) 1906.

I should have known better than to doubt Alexander....Good luck figuring out “whodunit” before the big reveal. I certainly did not.”—BookPage 

 

“I’ll freely admit that I love this series.  Of course some of them are even yummier than others, and this latest one might be one of the most delicious… As the book weaves past and present, one of the strengths of this type of narrative becomes apparent.  Each storyline is so compelling that it’s a bit wrenching to leave one to return to the other, captivated by each in succession. A skillful narrative feat on the part of Alexander who keeps both strands equally vivid and compelling… I can only hope this installment is only the midpoint and this series will continue for at least eighteen more!” — Robin Agnew, Aunt Agatha’s

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