Scan barcode
A review by oashackelford
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
4.0
It's Jane Austen meets a classic murder mystery novel (not quite as tricky as Agatha Christie but still fun.) One of the things that I love about books set in the regency era of England is that propriety often gets in the way of the investigation, which adds another layer of difficulty for the inspector trying to solve the case. I thought that this book was really funny and I laughed out loud a few times.
One thing that I do wish is that the book had covered which things ladies were and were not allowed to do a little better. Sometimes it felt really convenient that a person would yell impropriety just to hold up the proceedings but not really explain why the behavior was inappropriate. There was a newcomer in their area too, so there would have been a perfect excuse to explain the rules to him, but he often just shrugged it off and ignored them.
One thing that I do wish is that the book had covered which things ladies were and were not allowed to do a little better. Sometimes it felt really convenient that a person would yell impropriety just to hold up the proceedings but not really explain why the behavior was inappropriate. There was a newcomer in their area too, so there would have been a perfect excuse to explain the rules to him, but he often just shrugged it off and ignored them.