Love this series for a good bit of clean entertainment … the crime is followed by an intelligible pursuit for answers, an unfolding mystery that gets personal, all the danger and adventure that we love, overlapped with budding relationships and interpersonal tensions among our haphazard team of independent sleuths.

After the murder of an important mechanical engineer, a new wee buddy is introduced to The Aviary for the boys, Kit and Cordelia’s struggling attraction hits a major bump, and the sauce finally gets poured on Wrex and Charlotte’s tamed fire. Oh, and they work together through clues, against opposition and vile enemies, amid the blunders of a floundering government, and upon the political backdrop of Napoleon’s final defeat to solve this mystery for the inept authorities.

The characterisation is just that slight bit fluffed up to be almost eccentric in places—honestly emotional with bouts of heated and moments of restrained dialogue—but never caricature.

Good Regency Era Murder Mystery fun!!

My name is on the waiting list for the next one…I presume many more adventures for this lot ahead.