Still struggling to adjust to life after the war and after her husband's return from death, Verity Kent is further distressed to be going to her childhood home where her mother's sharp tongue and the ghost of her brother Robby will only bring up bad memories. Her great aunt Ilse has also shown up. The seventy-nine-year-old woman is a favorite relative of Verity's but she is not the same woman Verity remembers. Which makes sense. The woman has lost all of her relatives and her longtime personal maid. Now she has barely made it to a foreign country where many people actively hate Germans.
They are all off to Yorkshire where Verity's past still seems to haunt her. Then Ilse's maid, Bauer, is brutally murdered and the village is riled up in innumerable ways.
This was a good book and the mystery was fine but even better are the ways that Verity and even Sidney grew in this book. We get to see more of the family that Verity has been avoiding. Family hurts are brought to light; maybe not all healed but at least finally acknowledged. It was a nice diversion from the dealings with Lord Ardmore.
Four stars
Follows A Pretty Deceit
Followed by A Certain Darkness
This book comes out August 31st, 2021
ARC kindly provided by Kensington Books and NetGalley
Opinions are my own
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