Revenge in Rubies (Harriet Gordon Mystery, #2) in Aussie Readers

Sep 13, 2020 Brenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-on-kindle, 2020-release, net-galley, aussie-authors, own-read, historical-mystery, arc

With Harriet Gordon accompanying her employer, Inspector Robert Curran, to the home of Lieutenant Colonel John Nolan to provide comfort to the family of the victim, she had no idea of the horror and grim circumstances which would confront them. Nor what it would lead to. The brutal murder of Nolan’s young wife was a shock which rippled through the community and Curran’s job would be a tedious and drawn out one.

With the military closing ranks on all concerned and Curran finding his way stymied a ...more

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Oct 24, 2020 Helen rated it it was amazing

This is another brilliant and awesome story in this series, I loved it and found it very hard to put down, another murder in Singapore in 1910 that finds Harriet and her boss Inspector Robert Curran working hard to uncover the murderer with lots of twists and turns along the way and I was guessing to the very end. A must read.

When Harriet finds out about the death of a member of one of her friends family, she makes her way to Pris Nolan’s family home in support of Pris and finds out that Pris’s This is another brilliant and awesome story in this series, I loved it and found it very hard to put down, another murder in Singapore in 1910 that finds Harriet and her boss Inspector Robert Curran working hard to uncover the murderer with lots of twists and turns along the way and I was guessing to the very end. A must read.

When Harriet finds out about the death of a member of one of her friends family, she makes her way to Pris Nolan’s family home in support of Pris and finds out that Pris’s sister in law Sylvie Nolan has been murdered in a brutal way. Inspector Curran arrives to start the investigation, with Sylvie being the wife of Lieutenant Colonel John Nolan, Curran knows that he is going to come up against a brick wall in the investigation as the military close ranks to protect what they call family. Sylvie was a lot younger than her husband and well- liked by the younger military men.

Harriet is always willing to help with the investigation and this time as friends with the victim’s sister in law she is more than confident in finding some answers to help the inspector, of course with so much happening the investigation keeps having more added to it with more murders that appear to be linked to Sylvie’s murder they need to find the murderer and quickly.

Harriet seems very settled in her life in Singapore now she is happy looking after her young charge Will and she really enjoys her job typing up reports for Inspector Curran, she has an eye for detail and even though the inspector is not always happy with the way Harriet does a little investigating herself, he really is appreciative and together they are becoming a great team.

I cannot highly recommend this book and series enough, beautifully written it takes a reader back to Singapore in 1910 to the heat and ways of life then, MS Stuart makes me feel that I am there during the investigations. The characters come to life on the pages, it is a book that I wanted to get to the end of but didn’t want it to finish, bring on the next book I say, I can’t wait a fabulous story that I loved.
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Sep 22, 2020 Cathleen Ross rated it it was amazing

Very easy to fall headlong in to the second of the Harriet Gordon mystery series.
Harriet is working and living a satisfying life until Sylvie, a high ranking member of the army's wife, is murdered. All sorts of secrets are revealed and slowly Harriet is able to put the clues together to find out what really happened on the night Sylvie dies.

This would make a very good tele movie series.

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Aug 30, 2022 Nicola Marsh added it

Shelves: mystery, historical, read-in-2022

Historical mystery isn't a genre I usually read but I'm thoroughly enjoying the Harriet Gordon series, set in Singapore in the early 1900s.
She's a strong-willed heroine who gets the job done alongside an interesting cast of characters.
And I love the atmospheric Singapore of old. ...more

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Apr 16, 2022 Catsalive rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: aww, 2022

An excellent follow-up to Singapore Sapphire. Well-written, the story flows well & the characters are developing nicely. Harriet & Curran are interesting, the murders & procedures absorbing, and the glimpse into colonial Singapore is fascinating.

This is a very difficult case for Curran as the regiment closes its ranks against outsiders, he is struck down with a severe bout of malaria, & he also has a history with members of the battalion. Harriet plays a vital role as her female acquaintance pro ...more

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