MystereBooks: And Only To Deceive, the First Lady Emily Ashton Historical Mystery by Tasha Alexander

The ebook format of the first "Lady Emily Ashton" mystery by Tasha Alexander, And Only To Deceive, has been discounted to $1.99, courtesy of the publisher, HarperCollins.

First published in 2005, this stunning novel of historical suspense is set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murder …

We recently had the pleasure of reviewing the seventh in the series, Death in the Floating City, which takes Lady Emily to Venice to solve the murder of her friend's husband.

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And Only To Deceive
Tasha Alexander
A Lady Emily Ashton Mystery (1st in series)

For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and she immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek.

Emily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. There, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind. As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated.

    

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