BOOK OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n
Lady Irene Darling, a 50-year-old widowed marchioness, returns to London in the first installment of Gleason\u2019s newest mystery series. Lady Darling intends to chaperone a friend\u2019s daughter, Miss Priscilla Bedwith, during her first season out in society. Her return is followed by whispers of a troublesome past connected to a tragic event at Lady Enfield’s ball four years prior, resulting in the friends not speaking since. As the aging Lady takes on the challenging task of finding a husband for Priscilla, she finds herself at the heart of a new mystery, the murder of Mr. Tripley at his home during a dinner party she attended. Deciding she is the only person equipped and smart enough to conduct an investigation\u2014with a little help from her friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s curious detective in mind\u2014she sets out to solve the case, eliminating one suspect at a time (even as the suspects become victims themselves). This tale of strong-willed women, amateur sleuthing, and unraveled secrets is great for fans of Bridgerton and Sherlock Holmes alike.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BOOK OF THE WEEK Lady Irene Darling, a 50-year-old widowed marchioness, returns to London in the first installment of Gleason\u2019s newest mystery series. Lady Darling intends to chaperone a friend\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-book-of-the-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Lady-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Lady.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Charlotte Del Vecchio","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=13"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}