You will rack your brain until the very end.

She stays far enough away from the line of confusion, yet still manages to spin you in circles. Filled with twists and turns, every time you think you figured out “whodunnit,” Willig throws another curve ball.

Willig’s ability to misdirect the reader is flawless. For this reason, I will only say it will keep you guessing. It’s impossible for me to say anything at all about the mystery without completely spoiling the book. Ruled by the family matriarch, the Van Duyvil’s appear the perfect family on the surface. Of course, the Van Duyvil’s are very much of the old society.

Old society battles with the nouveau riche. Mansions, jewels, gowns, and other glaring riches compete with gossip and scandalous secrets. The luxuries of society are on full display. It is everything you want in a tale of intrigue, murder, and yes, romance! Set during the Gilded Age, The English Wife moves between New York and London. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad.īay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips? The English Wife Reviewįans of New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation series will adore this stand-alone romantic mystery. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. Official Synopsis of The English Wife: Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. I was not financially compensated for this post and all opinions are my own.) Martin’s Press, to write an honest review on The Silver Petticoat Review. (I received a free copy of The English Wife from the publisher, St.

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