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Sounds interesting......I think this might be the author who did an alternate Tudor history where Elizabeth had a brother.
OK, this is going on my TBR. Yes this is the same author of the Boleyn trilogy, Followed by the Tudor Legacy Trilogy. How I love those six books! I think the author lives about 20 minutes from me maybe less. She came to speak at a little library down the street when her first book was emerging. I will surely pick this series up. I will say, as I have said before, this is the one author who when I reached out to her and rotor her never acknowledged me and wrote me back. Her novels are good anyway. Thank you for pointing this one out.
Oh goodness! Another book to add to my TBR!! I’m reading the first book of the Boleyn Trilogy now. Great review.
JoLene wrote: "Sounds interesting......I think this might be the author who did an alternate Tudor history where Elizabeth had a brother."I believe that is so
Rachel wrote: "Oh goodness! Another book to add to my TBR!! I’m reading the first book of the Boleyn Trilogy now. Great review."Thank-you.....
Amy wrote: "OK, this is going on my TBR. Yes this is the same author of the Boleyn trilogy, Followed by the Tudor Legacy Trilogy. How I love those six books! I think the author lives about 20 minutes from me m..."Why how tacky of her not to respond.....
The Darkling Bride, Laura Anderson
★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2
"ABOUT THE DARKLING BRIDE
Three generations of Irish nobles face their family secrets in this spellbinding novel from the award-winning author of the Boleyn King trilogy.
The Gallagher family has called Deeprath Castle home for seven hundred years. Nestled in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, the estate is now slated to become a public trust, and book lover and scholar Carragh Ryan is hired to take inventory of its historic library. But after meeting Aidan, the current Viscount Gallagher, and his enigmatic family, Carragh knows that her task will be more challenging than she’d thought.
Two decades before, Aidan’s parents died violently at Deeprath. The case, which was never closed, has recently been taken up by a new detective determined to find the truth. The couple’s unusual deaths harken back a century, when twenty-three-year-old Lady Jenny Gallagher also died at Deeprath under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind an infant son and her husband, a renowned writer who never published again. These incidents only fueled fantastical theories about the Darkling Bride, a local legend of a sultry and dangerous woman from long ago whose wrath continues to haunt the castle.
The past catches up to the present, and odd clues in the house soon have Carragh wondering if there are unseen forces stalking the Gallagher family. As secrets emerge from the shadows and Carragh gets closer to answers—and to Aidan—could she be the Darkling Bride’s next victim?"
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Wow, what a spellbinding book.... Mysterious, lyrical, interesting characters w/ tragic back-stories
I did figure out who-done-it.... but that didn't prevent me from enjoying the outcome of the mystery.
The "Strong" Women:
Jenny & Lily, the ghosts: Jenny wasn't strong in life, but as a ghost she helped push Carrah forward.
Lily was strong in life investigating Jenny & the secrets that went with her to her grave while locked in the bride Tower
Great-Aunt Nessa, even if she was a mean-old-lady intent on protecting the family name, home & fortune
Carragh, the young woman who cane to catalog the family's library & helped to investigate the murder of Lily
Detective Sibeal McKenna, who used her intuition to its best advantage when interviewing suspects & investigating clues