A Scandalous Deception by Lynn Messina

Lies can come back to bite you in the butt. Beatrice Hyde-Clare is learning that first hand. In the first book of this series, she made up a love interest in order to make a girl feel empathy and talk to her. It backfired when the girl immediately told Beatrice's family about the man. Now they are obsessed with finding him. What else can Beatrice do but put a notice of his death in the paper?

Too bad a man falls dead right in front of her as she is exiting the building, stabbed with a very ostentatious knife. She's already solved one murder, does this one need to be solved by her too? Probably not. But she recognized that knife... and looking for it does set her right back in the path of the Duke of Kesgreave. 

The joy of these stories really is in reading the whole series. The mystery is a little thin and so is the romance but the growing story is overall fun.

Three Stars

Follows A Brazen Curiosity

Followed by An Infamous Betrayal

This book came out August 9th, 2018

Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited

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