Books by Tasha Alexander
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review 1: A great exploration of Venice as obvious from the title. A nice mystery and good enough book that it gets away with jumping back and forth into the past to explore the historical story resulting in the modern mystery. I don't like that yet again a great female author has felt the...
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review 1: This is the first of the Lady Emily Mysteries that I've read. Set in Victorian England, the series is set around Lady Emily and her husband, Colin, amateur sleuths. It's told in an upstairs/downstairs manner, though having not read the previous books I'm not sure if that's the us...
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review 1: 3.5 stars. Unlike other readers, I was not disillusioned by Emily's character. The changes to her voice and approach are the evolution of her personal tragedies and feelings of vulnerability. I was disappointed in Colin's departure from a more evolved male. It is understandab...
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review 1: I wasn't as impressed with A Crimson Warning as I have been with the previous Lady Emily mysteries. I was attracted to the series because Emily was so well written as a young woman who challenged the acceptable boundaries of being a woman in Victorian society. Her relationship ...
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review 1: Lady Emily and Colin are on their honeymoon in this historical mystery set in Constantinople, Turkey. On the Orient Express they meet an English diplomat who is missing Embassy papers. Arriving at their destination they are invites to watch an opera with the sultan. One of the ha...
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review 1: I keep saying I'm giving up on this series, but here I am, again. This one managed to keep me in suspense for a little while, but ultimately it was relatively boring and nothing was half as clever as I could feel it trying so hard to be. Frankly, the writing is just not good, and...
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review 1: In my opinion, this one is not as strong as others in the series. That being said, I still really enjoyed it.Set in and around Colin's country home, the story revolves around the murder of a Marquess from a neighboring estate, who happens to collapse and die in Colin and Emily's...
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review 1: So I just stumbled accross this short story and I had to share it with you. For those you, dear readers, who disappointed that you did not get to attend the wedding of Lady Emily Ashton and Colin Hagreaves, you don't have to wait any longer! Tasha Alexander published this charm...
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review 1: A very quick read, the story centers around aristocratic Lady Emily Hargreaves and her husband, who works for the Crown in Victoria England. Together they uncover a murder mystery and solve why red paint is splattered on prominent doorsteps of the community. Not a lot of substa...