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Ashley Gardner is the pseudonym for NY Times bestselling and award-winning author Jennifer Ashley and nationally bestselling and award-winning author Allyson James. Her award-winning Captain Lacey Regency mysteries have garnered top reviews and an enthusiastic following. These books are now available as digital editions. More about the series can be found at http://www.gardnermysteries.com

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Hi, Ashley! I'm a huge fan of your Captain Lacey mysteries. You write about very specific streets and parts of town in London. Have you spent a lot of time there, or do you mainly get your location ideas from historical research? Just curious. :)

Ashley Gardner Hi Laura: Thank you! I have visited London and walked its streets extensively. My feet get sore! But I find I learn the town very well by walking…moreHi Laura: Thank you! I have visited London and walked its streets extensively. My feet get sore! But I find I learn the town very well by walking instead of taking a taxi, tube, or tour bus. That said, Regency London has differences from modern London--roads have been put through in the last two hundred years that simply weren't there in Lacey's time. (However, you'd be amazed at what is there). I also have historic maps of London, which are painstakingly detailed, with every passage and house in a passage marked. More detailed than today's maps, even more than Google maps! I love maps, so walking the streets in my mind is as much fun as doing it in person (almost). I plan to return to London and do more walking in the next year or so.(less)

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Hello ! I'm a huge fan of your books and their hero. But not of Louisa, who asks Gabriel to forgive Brandon the horrible thing he did to him, and abandons him in book 3. Did you draw her character in accordance to the unconditional loyalty and strongly submissive behavior wives of these times were supposed to keep ? Is she described as a wonderful and strong person only because we see her through Gabriel's eyes ?

Ashley Gardner Louisa is a complex person. She fell happily in love when she was very young and married Brandon and then became disillusioned because of Brandon's…moreLouisa is a complex person. She fell happily in love when she was very young and married Brandon and then became disillusioned because of Brandon's stubborn, blustering, and not always intelligent personality. Also never being able to bring a child to term really hurt her. She might have been happy with Brandon if they'd had children. She also sees how the enmity between Brandon and Lacey is hurting Lacey, whom she loves--but not necessarily in a physical way. I'd say she's a lady caught in a situation where she doesn't know what she wants or what to do. So she's determined to stick by Brandon, whom she does love, but she might not *like* him all the time. Also, it was the proper thing to to (divorce was very difficult), though her emotions get the better of her sometimes. Your assessment that she's wonderful and strong only through Gabriel's eyes is a good one. He saw her as the ideal woman, the ideal wife, and regretted he didn't meet her first! At least in the beginning of the series. As the series goes on, Gabriel still likes her and is her friend, but he becomes more clear-eyed about her. We all have friends we love but watch them make mistakes. I'll keep an eye on Louisa and Brandon in future.(less)

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	The Hanover Square Affair (Captain Lacey, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 5,123 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Regimental Murder (Captain Lacey, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 1,800 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass House (Captain Lacey, #3) 4.04 avg rating — 1,518 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sudbury School Murders (Captain Lacey, #4) 4.05 avg rating — 1,350 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Body in Berkeley Square (Captain Lacey, #5) 4.12 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Covent Garden Mystery (Captain Lacey, #6) 4.16 avg rating — 1,189 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death in Norfolk (Captain Lacey, #7) 4.17 avg rating — 1,214 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Disappearance in Drury Lane (Captain Lacey, #8) 4.18 avg rating — 1,036 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mystery at Carlton House (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, #12) 4.38 avg rating — 748 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Necklace Affair (Captain Lacey, #4.5) 3.90 avg rating — 920 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I am writing the next Lacey book, Death at Brighton Pavilion. I’m a little behind on publishing because I did too much traveling last year, and I’m due for more long trips this year. However, I am writing quite a bit, and when I have things finished and...

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Scandal Above Stairs is Book 2 in the Kat Holloway Below Stairs Mysteries series. Reading order: Soupcon of Poison (prequel novella--optional!) Death Below Stairs (Book 1, Jan 2018) Scandal Above Stairs (Book 2, July 2018) Book 3--Title to come In Book 2, ...more
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Ashley Gardner made a comment on Jennifer Ashley’s review of Death Below Stairs (Kat Holloway Mysteries, #1) " Hector wrote: "What will book 2 be called..." Book 2 is Scandal Above Stairs. Scandal Above Stairs Out July 2018. I just turned in the edits and saw the ...more "
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Captain Lacey book 12! The captain is "requested" by the Runner Timothy Spendlove to look into mysterious thefts at Carlton House. The Regent too wants him to discover the culprit, but Lacey is distracted by his family life and the fact that James De ...more
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“But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self.”
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“A good book is like a good friend, do you know, Lacey? One you can turn to when the night is cold and you are lonely. And there is old Herodotus, standing ready to regale me with tales of his travels.”
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“The room was rather anonymous, with fashionable upholstered Sheraton chairs in a salmon-colored stripe and studded wood, salmon-colored swags on the windows, and cream silk on the walls. Nothing personal marred the room, as though the house’s inhabitants had ordered the furnishing to be as elegant yet innocuous as possible.”
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