Adventure! Mystery! A touch of romance! This delightful novel has it all!” Smart and sassy and featuring heroines of a certain age, this is the Regency I’ve been waiting for. “If you love Georgette Heyer, you’ll love The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies. “All three adventures are marked by successively mounting complications that fans of either the Regency period or take-no-prisoners feminism will cheer….Think of the Bridgerton novels with the steamy sex replaced by female-forward action sequences.” – Kirkus Readers will be eager to return for the duo’s next adventure.” – Publishers Weekly “Fierce, funny, and often dark, this is an eye-opening portrait of a colorful yet misogynistic period in English history. Well-developed characters, a touch of romance, and cases involving social issues of the period enhance the experience.” – Library Journal, starred review “Fans of Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels will savor this mystery from “Dark Days Club” series author Goodman. Praise for The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies She persuades Julia to join her in a quest to help Lord Evan, and others in need-society be damned! And so begins the beguiling secret life and adventures of the Colebrook twins. She is convinced Lord Evan was falsely accused of murder, and she is going to prove it. What follows is a high adventure full of danger, clever improvisation, heart-racing near misses, and a little help from a revived and rather charming Lord Evan.īack in London, Gus can’t stop thinking about her unlikely (not to mention handsome) comrade-in-arms. With Lord Evan injured and unconscious, the sisters have no choice but to bring him on their mission to save Caroline. In the scuffle, Gus accidentally shoots the ruffian, only to discover he is Lord Evan Belford, an acquaintance from their past who was charged with murder and exiled to Australia twenty years ago.

The sisters set out to Caroline’s country estate with a plan, but their carriage is accosted by a highwayman. One soon presents itself: to rescue their friend’s goddaughter, Caroline, from her violent husband. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed, need a distraction. Lady Augusta Colebrook, “Gus,” is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two.

A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an ‘old maid’ to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman.

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