A Curious Beginning featuring Victoria Speedwell is a new series to add to my ever growing list to follow... this is a fun light entertaining young woman who wants to defy the expected role of women in her time period. Set in 1800 in England, she should be settling down at the age of 18 with a husband who will take care of her and their future children.
But she has a razor sharp tongue and quick wit and dreams of exploring the world catching butterflies. This book is the first mystery she has to solve. When a man who approaches her tells her past is not what it seems, leaves her in the custody of someone he trusts and then is murdered, she sets off to find out the secrets of her past and free herself and her benefactor from murder charges or possibly worse.
Brought up my two spinster aunts, Victoria doesn't suspect anything is amiss until both of the elderly ladies die. Now she is on her own and planning to close up the small cottage they have recently lived in and set off chasing illusive butterflies. First someone ransacks the cottage and tries to kidnap her. Then a gentleman intervenes and takes her to London. On the way he starts to explain that all is not as it seems. But after leaving her with a friend of his to watch her and promising to come back with answers he is murdered.
She and the handsome, but of course antagonistic, rough man named Stoker, are off to solve the mystery of their benefactor's death and clear their names of suspicion for murder.
This is a fun mystery because not only are you getting clues to the possible murderer but at the same time each of the lead characters are also slowly revealing more about their pasts which are also mysterious.
I will try and read another book from this series and see how the characters develop.
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