Die I Will Not: A Regency
Mystery
S.K. Rizzolo
Poisoned Pen, Nov 4 2014, $24.95
ISBN 9781464203244
In 1813, Penelope Wolfe visits London Daily Intelligencer
journalist Dryden Leach to get him to reveal, if he knows who, the identity of pseudonym
Collatinus whose letters attack the wastrel Prince and threaten to reveal who
was involved in the N.D. murder twenty years ago. Two decades ago, Penelope’s father Eustace
Sandford wrote treasonous papers using the name Collatinus; when someone murdered
his lover Nell Durant, he fled England to avoid arrest for treason and
homicide. She knows her dad is not the
current author.
Moments before she can plead her case with the reporter, a woman
stabs Leach to death. Knowing her
husband Jeremy would ridicule her, a desperate Penelope asks barrister Edward
Buckler, whom she met when she was Lady Ashe’s companion, and Bow Street Runner
John Chase to prove her innocence in the present day murder and restore her family’s
tarnished reputation.
The third Regency mystery (see Rose In The Wheel and Blood for Blood)
is a terrific complicated whodunit in which clues to the recent Leach and cold
case Durant homicides seemingly lead to political untouchables. The investigation is fun to follow, but it is
the tour(s) of Regency London by the diverse amiable lead trio that armchair
readers will want to join.
Harriet Klausner
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