Good Rake Is Hard To Find
Manda Collins
St. Martin's Paperbacks, Mar 31 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9781250061065
One of the Lords of Anarchy four horsemen Jonathan Craven
substantially leads another club member Frederick Lisle in a carriage race from
Basildon to Dartford. However, a third
coach catches up to the former Napoleonic War veteran and as Jonathan tries to
escape he crashes to his death with his last thoughts on letting down Nora.
His grieving sister Leonora believes her brother did not die in an
accident, but instead was murdered due to his Lords of Anarchy
association. She wants to investigate
but knows a woman will receive no cooperation.
Thus she makes her case with her former fiancé Frederick who agrees to
help her infiltrate the club; but for Leonora to gain entrance they must
pretend they are patching up their broken relationship. As they work the case closely together, both
know they remain in love; but Nora owes Freddy an explanation as to why she
ended their betrothal.
The first Lords of Anarchy romantic mystery is a rousing Regency
in which Manda Collins adroitly ties together the suspense and second chance at
love subplots. The fully developed
amateur sleuths turn this into a tremendous historical as they work the
dangerous case while feeling déjà vu of falling in love all over again.
Harriet Klausner
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