Flash Review
A relentlessly readable and absorbing novel! The way the author untangled the seductive plot of this Gilded Age historical mystery transfixed me throughout its tantalizing dual-timeline structure, its rapid fire plot twists, and its "literally" explosive final revelations. The plethora of literary references to Shakespearean plays (The Twelfth Night in particular), the witty banters and lively dialogues (loved the erudite exchanges between Bay and Annabelle, Janie and Burke) were just the icing on an already elegant and well thought out confection. My verdict: 5 stars!
About the Book
THE ENGLISH WIFE
By
Lauren Willig
Published by St. Martin's Press
January 9, 2018
Hardcover, 376 pages
Historical Fiction, Mystery
Amazon
From the New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous New York Gilded Age novel full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.
Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Bay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips?
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