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Beatrice Hyde-ClareReeks

Deze serie volgt de avonturen van een scherpe en onafhankelijke jonge vrouw die zich beweegt in het elegante Victoriaanse tijdperk. Met haar scherpe verstand en onwrikbare zoektocht naar de waarheid, duikt ze in het oplossen van ingewikkelde mysteries en het ontrafelen van samenzweringen. Elk deel levert spannende escapades vol geheimen, maatschappelijke beperkingen en verrassende wendingen die de lezers van begin tot eind zullen boeien.

A Scandalous Deception
A Brazen Curiosity
An Infamous Betrayal
Skandální podvod

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    A Brazen Curiosity

    • 224bladzijden
    • 8 uur lezen
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    Twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is far too shy to investigate the suspicious death of a fellow guest in the Lake District. A spinster who lives on the sufferance of her relatives, she would certainly not presume to search the rooms of her host's son and his friend looking for evidence. Reared in the twin virtues of deference and docility, she would absolutely never think to question the imperious Duke of Kesgrave about anything, let alone how he chose to represent the incident to the local constable. And yet when she stumbles upon the bludgeoned corpse of poor Mr. Otley in the deserted library of the Skeffingtons' country house, that's exactly what she does.

    A Brazen Curiosity
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    Skandální podvod

    • 240bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
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    Jakkoli si Beatrice Hyde-Clareová libovala ve výzvě, jíž bylo pátrání po vrahovi na večírku v Lake District, rozhodně se nepovažuje za amatérskou vyšetřovatelku. Když jí tedy přímo u vchodu do London Gazette padne mrtvý k nohám jistý londýnský švihák, necítí Bea žádné nutkání to vyšetřovat. Koneckonců je to zpravodajská kancelář a reportéři se už případem zabývají stejně jako úřady. A ona sama má vlastních problémů dost – třeba tu neškodnou lež, která se jaksi vyvinula ve směšně nafouknutý příběh. Opravdu, vůbec ji to nezajímá. Až na to, že dýka, která nebohého hraběte zabila, se zdá být znepokojivě povědomá... A tak se Bea vydává do Britského muzea, protože si nemůže odpočinout, dokud své podezření nepotvrdí, zatímco se snaží rozptýlit obavy své rodiny a pochopit nutkání vévody z Kesgrave. Pohledný lord totiž nemá důvod ztrácet čas řešením záhady po boku plaché staré panny. A přesto se objevuje všude, kam Bea jde.

    Skandální podvod
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    A Scandalous Deception

    A Regency Cozy

    • 216bladzijden
    • 8 uur lezen
    4,5(4)Tarief

    As much as Beatrice Hyde-Clare relished the challenge of figuring out who murdered a fellow guest during a house party in the Lake District, she certainly does not consider herself an amateur investigator. So when a London dandy falls dead at her feet in the entryway of a London Daily Gazette, she feels no compulsion to investigate. It was a newspaper office, after all, and reporters are already on the case as are the authorities. She has her own problems to deal with anyway-such as extricating herself from a seemingly harmless little fib that has somehow grown in into a ridiculously large fiction. Truly, she has no interest at all. Except the dagger that killed the poor earl seemed disconcertingly familiar... And so Bea is off to the British Museum because she cannot rest until she confirms her suspicion, while trying to allay her family's concerns and comprehend the Duke of Kesgrave's compulsion. For the handsome lord has no reason to waste his time solving a mystery alongside a shy spinster. And yet he turns up everywhere she goes.

    A Scandalous Deception
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    An Infamous Betrayal

    • 230bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
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    Having solved the two murders that somehow fell in her path, Beatrice Hyde-Clare is on the lookout for a third. Through a absurd quirk of stupid fate, the shy spinster has fallen in love with the thoroughly unattainable Duke of Kesgrave and is desperate for something, anything, to occupy her mind. A dead body would do nicely. Fortunately for her, a fellow guest from a Lake District house party appears on her doorstep with exactly that: the lover of his fiancée's mother expired after a wretchedly painful episode just that morning in an apparent poisoning. As unorthodox as it is, he would like Bea to investigate rather than calling the authorities. Bea begins her inquiry into Mr. Wilson's death at once and almost immediately finds herself in the company of Kesgrave, who is as determined as ever to assist her. 'Twas patently unfair, for the whole point of the investigation was to get away from the handsome lord. Now Bea is faced with the daunting challenge of exposing the villain without revealing her heart. A Regency Cozy.

    An Infamous Betrayal