Showing posts with label Historical Mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical Mystery. Show all posts

March 25, 2018

Review: The Study of Silence

Book Title: The Study of Silence
Author: Malia Zaidi
Genres: Mystery, Human Nature, Crime/ Detective, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, England
Series: A Lady Evelyn Mystery #3
Publisher: BookBaby
ISBN: 9781543916393
Publish Date:  2018-02-27 (579 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: I received free copy of the book from the author for an honest review and from +Pump your books, +CamiAnderson
Description: Lady Evelyn Carlisle has returned home to England, where she is completing her degree at St. Hugh’s, a women’s college in Oxford. Her days are spent poring over ancient texts and rushing to tutorials. All is well until a fateful morning, when her peaceful student life is turned on its head. Stumbling upon the gruesome killing of someone she thought she knew, Evelyn is plunged into a murder investigation once more, much to the chagrin of her friends and family, as well as the intriguing Detective Lucas Stanton. The dreaming spires of Oxford begin to appear decidedly less romantic as she gathers clues, and learns far more than she ever wished to know about the darkness lurking beyond the polished veneer. Can she solve the crime before the killer strikes once more, this time to Evelyn’s own detriment?

The Study of Silence is baffles me as to what the true plot is. Though, it is good read. I know there a murder in the book. Why, the person is murdered, you will not by no mean until the end of the book.

I know the story is somewhat told in a third person i believe anyway. I was wondering if was more about human nature or if the story was more set to be about Evelyn. Why someone is after her when she not does much to find out. Evelyn seems to get sucked into the murder and danger accidentally.

I do enjoy the fact that we learn about women's rights a bit during England era though this book. The story is set in the era of 1926 England. We experience or learn about Oxford and that time period and customs. That part of the story give the author a swell of job.

She touches a bit of things that might go one during this time that we do not like in our modern day time. The cause of this murder and the unlikely will be surprise of the reason for it. Was the professor living a double life or a secret life. Who is the murderer? To find out you will have to read the book.




Malia Zaidi is a writer and painter, who grew up in Germany and lives in the US. An avid reader and traveler, she decided to combine these passions, and turn her long-time ambition of writing into a reality. The Study of Silence is the third book of The Lady Evelyn Mysteries.

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March 15, 2016

Book Tour: Leaving Everything Most Loved

Book Title:  Leaving Everything Most Loved
Author: 
Publisher: Harper
Pub Date: March 26th 2013 (336 Pages, Hardcover)
Genres: European Literature, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
Series: Maisie Dobbs (10)
Disclaimer: I received this book free from the publisher and TLCBookTours for an honesty review.
Description: London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.

Before her death, Usha was staying at an ayah's hostel alongside Indian women whose British employers turned them out into the street--penniless and far from their homeland--when their services were no longer needed. As Maisie soon learns, Usha was different from the hostel's other lodgers. But with this discovery comes new danger: another Indian woman who had information about Usha is found murdered before she can talk to Maisie.

As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet captivating subculture, her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case as well as a growing desire to see more of the world, following in the footsteps of her former mentor, Maurice Blanche. And there is her lover, James Compton, who gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore.

Bringing a crucial chapter in the life and times of Maisie Dobbs to a close, Leaving Everything Most Loved marks a pivotal moment in this remarkable series.

 Jacqueline Winspear is a new author to me. I so nice to find a new author I have not ever read or though try. Her book was refreshing and enjoyable to read.

It nice to see that a woman is a hero and having her own life and having a career she loves to do. Massie Dobbs loves to solve crimes and investigate around her home. She now struggles with if she should travel or stay.

She seems like she loves adventures and want to find out about herself.  I loved the fact that you get to go on adventures with her. She one that will not give up on any crime or miss a boy.  She will get to the bottom of the crime or murder if that the case.

She also struggles with her relationship with James. James seem ready to marry but is Massie? You will follow her and her trials to find out.




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