I got put off this series after finding the last couple of episodes pretty tedious. That was over three years ago and for some reason, I’m not quite sure myself, I thought I’d give Mary Russell another chance. And I’m very glad I did because I really enjoyed this book.

Mary and Holmes get caught up in untangling the inheritance of the seventh Duke of Beauville - in the beginning the plot seems pretty thin and there isn’t really much mystery about it. It develops into a decent story though and I found it to be a good page turner towards the end.

Hope the next books in the series are as fun as this one.