I love this whole series. The books are just such a comfort to read -- they make you feel like cuddling up in front of a warm fire with some hot cocoa. Ahhhhh. ;-)

Anyway -- this installment was much more satisfying for me than the previous volume. This time around, Jonty and Orlando are solving two mysteries -- one involving the murder of a young man who may or may not be who everyone thinks he is, and one involving the mystery of Orlando's own true identity. Questions of "trust", from the title More...

Step by step Jonty and Orlando are entering the new century, the date is 1908, and some element of modernity are intruding in their life, like an automobile, a Lagonda, that Jonty loves so much and instead Orlando considers a machine from hell. If you find strange a pick up this detail of all the story to introduce this new instalment in the Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, it’s soon explained: Jonty and Orlando are becoming day after day like an old married couple, and the comparison is easy with J More...

I say with great regret, for the genuine enjoyment I have missed, that “Lessons in Trust” by Charlie Cochrane [Samhain Publishing, 2010] is the first of the “Cambridge Fellows Mysteries” I have read. Fortunately it is not the first of Ms Chochrane’s stories I have reviewed, for “Sand,” (her contribution to the “Last Gasp Anthology”) holds that delightful distinction. Nevertheless, Lessons in Trust gives a much broader picture of her remarkable talent, and it has left this particular reader yearn More...

Ahh how I do love those Cambridge dons. Book 7 in the series, Lessons in Trust, actually steps back up from the slightly lackluster performance of book 6. Perhaps I was the only one that felt the last book didn’t have the same spark and sizzle as others but even so there are few if any complaints about this new offering. The latest book returns with witty dialogue, heartfelt emotion, and an interesting set of mysteries. The familiar style of writing is once again in top form here with the langui More...

I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm not fond of historicals in this particular period and I was reading this for a reading challenge. I happened to win this one in a GR giveaway, and Charlie offered to send me the first of the series instead of this one (the seventh), but I liked the story behind this one more and opted to keep this one instead. She did warn me it would probably be better to start the series from the beginning.

If I had it to do over again, I would listen to her and take More...

Another lovely book from “Cambridge Fellows Mysteries” delivered by Charlie Cochrane. The seventh book in the series challenges Jonty and Orlando to solve not one, but two mysteries. The first mystery involves the death of a young man which Jonty and Orlando witnessed. Unlike the previous cases, I knew the answer of this one when I was only a quarter throughout the book. And I have to admit that this case didn't hold my attention to much. I was far more interested to follow Orlando in his quest More...

I have to be in the right mood to read the Lessons books, but when I am I enjoy Jonty and Orlando. I like their relationship, their slightly unworldly enthusiasms, and their mannerly conversations with passion kept behind locked doors (in an era when getting caught could mean a 2-year prison term). This is a good installment. Orlando faces a loss and learns some new truths about who he is, and Jonty copes with the emotional fall-out. The mystery didn't really grip me in this one, but the persona More...

Goodreads continues to screw around with me, insisting I haven't read a given book just because I reviewed a different edition of it. Arg. Please ignore this duplicate review --

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I love this whole series. The books are just such a comfort to read -- they make you feel like cuddling up in front of a warm fire with some hot cocoa. Ahhhhh. ;-)

Anyway -- this installment was much more satisfying for me than the previous volume. This time around, Jonty and Orlando are solving two mysteries -- one i More...

Jonty and Orlando are at it again, this time in summer, in London. They get involved in a murder investigation, despite the Inspector who doesn't want them involved. Plus, Orlando's grandmother dies and Orlando is faced with solving the mystery of his family's past. Another great book in the series, and the last of the Edwardian line.

Orlando has to deal with the loss of his beloved grandmother and the revelation that his father was born out of wedlock. Jonty wants to be supportive and help Orlando through this difficult time - if only Orlando hadn't run off. The mystery is more of an irritation that helps keep the lovers apart.

The layers in this novel are magnificently crafted, all the issues of trust and how easily it can be damaged. These books get better and better. Now I have to face the last of the eight... and figure out how I am going to go on without another Jonty and Orlando to look forward to.

Definitely my favourite of the series so far. Lovely descriptions of the White City with its wide variety of exhibits and rides, and I had great joy at the varying reactions to Jonty's new motor car. Both mystery plots were suitably intriguing, and excellently resolved, and all the characters shone. Highly recommended.

No 7 does not dissappoint it is as well written as the others in all aspects especially the love between Orlando and Jonty and how is grows every day. The way it is shoen with simply looks and touch where they gather so much love and strength from each other. Very beautiful love scenes. The murder mystery was well written even if i did guess what was going on before they did lol. The secondary characters as wonderful as always charming, funny, strong and loving. I am going to miss these characte More...

Good read but does not stand out.

Very good historical m/m mystery/romance, in which Orlando discovers that most of what he believed about his family isn't true - a discovery that leaves him feeling very lost.

Rating: 4.5 stars

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