#julia seales

[misshiss727]

I love it when authors are hilarious:

“He loved all his children. Louisa was strong and good natured. And Mary was also his daughter.”

[deedleray]

My two favorite London detectives!

[paint-splatt]

So right now I’m reading a Regency murder mystery and it’s funnier and campier than I expected but my absolute favorite part is that the youngest daughter is heavily implied to be a werewolf. Like. She just randomly walks through rooms smelling of meat and fur. She solemnly spits bars about the full moon. There are footnotes and the footnotes are exclusively used to make references to her possibly being a werewolf.

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: A Terribly Nasty Business (Beatrice Steele #2) by Julia Seales

A Terribly Nasty Businessis a charming and amusing sequel. After finally whetting her true crime appetite by solving her first case, Beatrice Steele takes on London as both a society miss in search of a husband and an inspector with her ever curt, ever logical partner, Vivek Drake. It's quite a balancing act in this one with Beatrice having to contend with gruesome murders, artist censorship in the community, pressure from her marriage-minded mama, and a tangled little love triangle.

All in all, I thought this was an enjoyable addition to the series, though not quite as captivating as the first book. I believe the satirical bits didn't land as hard and the mystery got to be too involved. I did quite like the romantic tension between Beatrice and Drake, though. It was delicious. I hope to see more of that as the series continues.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC in exchange for my review.

3/5 stars

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[the-mad-dame]

My 100th book of the year was A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales. It was a fun regency era cozy murder mystery. With some surprises.

In fact, I imagine this was Julia Seales writing this novel:

And then just never address that or the guy I'm pretty sure is a zombie or a vampire. Something immortal and definitely dead.

Absolute madwoman. Love that for her.

[lakecountylibrary]

I have been enjoying A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales. I love a good murder mystery but have surprisingly enjoyed the setting of Regency-era Britain. Would you be able to provide any recommendations for other novels similar to this?

Certainly! We too love a good historical murder mystery, so several of us have recs for you.

Brenna: The Wrexford & Sloane series by Andrea Penrose takes place in Regency London and is murder mystery on a more cozy-ish scale. Audiobook narrator is excellent! I've listened to them all.

Start with Murder on Black Swan Lake

Sarah: There is Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James, which is a sort of sequel to Pride and Prejudice. It was well-received enough to get its own adaptation on BBC.

Chris (who literally just checked out the audiobook for A Most Agreeable Murder): I would suggest the Dianne Freeman series "Countess of Harleigh Mysteries", starting with A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder.

Happy reading!

[the-final-sentence]

As she pulled him loose, Beatrice knew that this was just the beginning of a perfectly exasperating partnership.

Julia Seales, from A Most Agreeable Murder

[butch-reader]

A Most Agreeable Murder, by Julia Seales

An okay regency era murder mystery. It's exactly what you expect from the title and cover. Fans of cozy mysteries and historical fiction will like it a lot, but those aren't my genres.