Veronica and Stoker make an irreplaceable team who enjoy verbal sparring as much as sleuthing. Her sidekick (for want of a better term) Stoker is much like Lady Julia’s foil Nicholas Brisbane, dark and mysterious. Her mental observations are both sharp and humorous. While Lady Julia was courageous yet fairly straitlaced, Veronica is eccentric and sexually liberal, but downright fun to read about. With Veronica, she takes on an entirely different character. She is most known for her bestselling Lady Julia Grey mystery series. High jinks, suspense, and sexual tension ensue.ĭeanna Raybourn excels at creating rollicking good reads featuring complex and hilarious characters. When the Baron turns up dead, Veronica and Stoker are launched on a race to discover whether their friend’s death was natural or nefarious. Along the way she meets the enigmatic Baron, who seems to know the details of her personal history, and his friend, the stoic and sometimes downright churlish Stoker. Upon returning to England to nurse her dying foster mother, she soon finds herself embroiled in a complex plot that might mean the death of her. Veronica is an intrepid traveler and natural historian who flouts Victorian morals with relish. A Curious Beginning is the first installment in Deanna Raybourn’s new mystery series featuring Veronica Speedwell.
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