Slightly Shady: Lavinia Lake / Tobias March Series, Book 1
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'Amanda Quick is one of the hottest writers in romance today...Her heroines are always women you'd love to know, and her heroes are dashing guys you'd love to love' USA Today 'This action-packed tale, brimming with witty characters, vivid historical detail, and tautly woven intrigue kept me guessing until the very end' Lisa Gardener
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Danger seems to follow wherever Lavinia Lake goes. Her shop in Italy is thoroughly destroyed by a stranger. Upon her return to England with her niece, she becomes the target of a blackmailer. When she goes to his home to confront him, his murdered body is what she finds. Worse, the same stranger in Italy catches her with the body.
His name is Tobias March, and he's a private investigator hired by a secret employer to capture the last surviving member of a criminal gang. The identity of that person is in a diary, now missing but last possessed by Lavinia's blackmailer, who accused her of working for the gang in Italy. She's incensed — and desperate to find the diary. If its false allegations about her ever bacomes public knowledge, her niece's one chance at a proper Season in London society would be utterly ruined.
There's only one thing to do — join forces with Tobias, who has already determined her innocence of all shady dealings. The trail to a murderer and the diary leads them all over London, from the grand home of a widowed countess and the smoky rooms of an alley pub to waxwork museums and a venerable club. For Lavinia and Tobias, what begins as a business arrangement turns to breath-stealing passion even as a ruthless villain watches them, ready to take their lives at the first opportunity.
Performance by Elizabeth Sastre
Danger seems to follow wherever Lavinia Lake goes. Her shop in Italy is thoroughly destroyed by a stranger. Upon her return to England with her niece, she becomes the target of a blackmailer. When she goes to his home to confront him, his murdered body is what she finds. Worse, the same stranger in Italy catches her with the body.
His name is Tobias March, and he's a private investigator hired by a secret employer to capture the last surviving member of a criminal gang. The identity of that person is in a diary, now missing but last possessed by Lavinia's blackmailer, who accused her of working for the gang in Italy. She's incensed — and desperate to find the diary. If its false allegations about her ever bacomes public knowledge, her niece's one chance at a proper Season in London society would be utterly ruined.
There's only one thing to do — join forces with Tobias, who has already determined her innocence of all shady dealings. The trail to a murderer and the diary leads them all over London, from the grand home of a widowed countess and the smoky rooms of an alley pub to waxwork museums and a venerable club. For Lavinia and Tobias, what begins as a business arrangement turns to breath-stealing passion even as a ruthless villain watches them, ready to take their lives at the first opportunity.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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With Amanda Quick's novels, there is always a lot of quickie, hot sex, domineering women and masterful men, and in this, 'Slightly Shady' is no exception. However, the emphasis in this story is more on a murder mystery coupled with a frustrated romance than just romance.
As I love historical mysteries, this gave the book added appeal for me and kept me turning pages. But if you like your stories centred more on the romance, then this may not be the story for you.
Lavinia Lake, a rather cash-strapped widow, meets the infuriating Tobias March in Rome, when he trashes her antiquities shop to make it look like she has been robbed, and to potentially save her life. Unbeknownst to her, her shop is being used as a criminal's post office, placing her and her niece Emeline in danger.
Back home in London, Lavinia once again crosses paths with Tobias, this time over a dead body. The man now deceased had been attempting to blackmail her with threats to spread sordid embellished tales of her Italian life around the ton and scupper Emeline's chances of an advantageous marriage. Joining forces, the two set off in search of a missing diary, a macabre waxwork artist and a murderer, finding themselves drawn more and more to each other along the way.
A good mystery (though I did guess the twist at the end), a nice if not-that-romantic entanglement and love affair between the two sleuths and good co-stars in the guise of Emeline, Anthony (Tobias's ex brother-in-law) and the deceptively quiet Crackenburne. Worth a read.
As I love historical mysteries, this gave the book added appeal for me and kept me turning pages. But if you like your stories centred more on the romance, then this may not be the story for you.
Lavinia Lake, a rather cash-strapped widow, meets the infuriating Tobias March in Rome, when he trashes her antiquities shop to make it look like she has been robbed, and to potentially save her life. Unbeknownst to her, her shop is being used as a criminal's post office, placing her and her niece Emeline in danger.
Back home in London, Lavinia once again crosses paths with Tobias, this time over a dead body. The man now deceased had been attempting to blackmail her with threats to spread sordid embellished tales of her Italian life around the ton and scupper Emeline's chances of an advantageous marriage. Joining forces, the two set off in search of a missing diary, a macabre waxwork artist and a murderer, finding themselves drawn more and more to each other along the way.
A good mystery (though I did guess the twist at the end), a nice if not-that-romantic entanglement and love affair between the two sleuths and good co-stars in the guise of Emeline, Anthony (Tobias's ex brother-in-law) and the deceptively quiet Crackenburne. Worth a read.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Nice plot, interesting characters. never loses momentum and has it's funny moments. The ending is unlike any of her other books and it's up to the readers to draw their own conclusions. This is the 1st installments of 2 books with the same characters. Tobias, Lavinia, Emilline and Antony.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Amanda Quick has written some delightful, five-star romances, especially her earlier works; however this isn't one of them. This romance lacks solid character descriptions: We don't know much about their backgrounds or what motivates them. We don't even know what the characters look like until way into the middle of the book. An example of the plot weakness is that it's hard to imagine someone as poor as Lavina having genuine expensive artifacts to sell. The story is very developped. This is reading-lite, too light. It's all surface and no substance.
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A fun read
I really enjoyed this as a light read. It is not a romance like many of her other books but rather a murder mystery in a historical setting with chemistry between Lavinia and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Alison DJ
A must have for Amanda Quick fans, but mediocre at best.
I love Amanda Quick,Jayne Ann Krentz,Jayne Castle but this is lukewarm at best. The plot holds but the character development is illdefined. Read more
Published on 7 April 2001 by Christine M. Zukeran
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