Audiobook8 hours
The Mayfair Dagger
Written by Ava January
Narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden and Dennis Kleinman
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
This witty feminist mystery set in nineteenth-century London features an intrepid female detective who will thrill fans of Deanna Raybourn and Katharine Schellman.
Author
Ava January
Ava January is a historical writer with a passion for mystery, and when she’s not found soaking up the Queensland sun with her two young sons, she can be found eavesdropping on conversations in cafes and making up entire backstories (and murderous intents) for unsuspecting bystanders. When she grows up, she’d like to be Miss Marple.
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Reviews for The Mayfair Dagger
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The world’s worst detective meets the world’s worst duke in this historical romance mystery romp.
This is being marketed as a mystery, but it’s solidly a historical romance with a mystery subplot. Albertine and Spencer have strong chemistry and bring out the best in each other. The mystery subplot is engaging and kept me guessing. The audiobook narration was entertaining.
Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this mashup of two genres - historical mystery and historical romance. As children, Albertine Honeycombe and her brother dreamed of solving mysteries as a sleuth they named the Mayfair Dagger. When her father and brother both die, her cousin inherits the family estate and plans to marry her off to a neighboring farmer with 15 children. Somehow, this doesn't appeal to her, so she takes off to London with her devoted housekeeper and reinvents herself as the Countess von Dagga, who runs her fictitious husband's detective agency in his absence.
In the meantime, Spencer Sweetman is a Scotland Yard inspector who's unexpected inherited the unwanted title of Duke of Erleigh after the deaths of his father and brother. He'd much prefer to continue his career as a detective, but has agreed that his current case will be his last. The case is investigating a murder where Albertine was the last person to see the victim alive, and rumors that perhaps she's also killed her own (fictional) husband.
Hijinks ensue, with situations bordering on slapstick. Albertine and Spencer are each pretending to be someone they aren't - but this is also a romance, so they're also fighting a growing attraction to each other. There's humor and heart - I just wish they could open a detective agency called Honeycombe & Sweetman. What a fun series that could be.
I did listen to the audiobook and the narration by Elizabeth Knowelden and Dennis Kleinman was excellent on both counts.
Thanks to Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for providing a digital copy for an unbiased review.1 person found this helpful