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A Fashionable Fatality

Lady and Lady's Maid, Book 8

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A Fashionable Fatality

Yazan: Alyssa Maxwell
Seslendiren: Mandy Weston
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 A house party attended by fashion royalty becomes the backdrop for a murder that only Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, can untangle . . .
Amid the aftermath of the Great War and its hardships, it’s no wonder that many wish to rediscover life’s pleasures—parties, fashion, dancing. Still, Lady Phoebe and Eva are disconcerted when a small gathering at the home of Phoebe’s sister, Julia, becomes a far larger and more glamorous affair . . .
Julia has invited her favorite French fashion designer, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, and Coco’s current beau, the Earl of Chesterhaven. Coco has brought an entourage of her own, including two models, and intends to use the gardens as a photographic setting for her latest creations.
Madame Chanel is as outspoken as she is talented, offering a scathing critique of Phoebe’s fashion sense. There is tense competition between the models as well. When one of the guests is found dead of smoke inhalation, it appears to be a tragic accident. But was a footman really to blame for mistakenly closing the fireplace flue, or is there a more sinister explanation?
Phoebe is determined to find out, despite the protestations of her sweetheart, Owen Seabright. Both above and below stairs, Phoebe and Eva uncover myriad motives—career ambition, romantic rivalries, and even deeper betrayals. For despite the surface beauty, there are ugly secrets in the world of Maison Chanel, ones that a killer will risk anything to protect.©2023 Lisa Manuel (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd Gizem Historical Kadın Kurgu Kurgu Women Sleuths World Literature Dedektif
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I really enjoy the stories as they are easy to
But, again, the Americanisms are jarring. Gotten, toward and tub to name the most annoying.

As always a good story

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Spoilt characters, little development. I liked the others in series, but this seemed to not move the story forward. Julia is just a spoilt brat, and everyone panders to her. Phoebe just follows her around, and there is no strong character.

mystery series starting to fall a bit flat

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I have enjoyed the other books in the series even though sometimes the padding of the plot, the numerous chapters it takes for any character to realise the obvious and, the Americanisms are irritating. However, this book has lost the plot altogether. There are so many errors in the plot and too many Americanisms. The victim is killed by closing the fireplace flue yet, later on numerous characters are accused of murder by opening the flue! The servants bring in food and a pot of coffee but suddenly, everyone is pouring tea and adding cream. It feels as though it was sloppily written in a hurry and poorly edited. Disappointing.

Sloppy

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The author and/or team either don't read, or aren't listening to feedback. The American anachronism throughout; e.g. "gotten" and English people putting cream and sugar in tea etc just pull you out of the story. A British editor casting an eye over the manuscript would avoid these.
The mauling of Coco Chanel was also unexpected.
For the Audible edition, I also would have expect them to go back and re-record the handful of instances where the narrator mispronounced "mannequin" before being corrected. I fully expect this series to continue but I won't be buying any more.

Another 'cosy crime' offering but...

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other have commented on the Americanisms, and I wholeheartedly agree. This story however involves many French names, all mispronounced, and locates Lorrsine in the North of France - any French person will tell you it's in the north-east, and for short people usually refer to Alsace and Lorraine as the east. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter, but for those familiar with all this it makes for a jarring listening experience, when such cosy mystery is, to my mind, meant to be easy listening...
A disappointing and rather grating listen...

easy listen if you're neither English nor French

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