A Fatal Waltz
by Tasha Alexander
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Author: Tasha AlexanderEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN: 006117422X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: William Morrow
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Book Review: Not like the previous books ...
Summary: 4 Stars
Emily (Lady Ashton) is invited to a shooting weekend at Lord Fortescue's estate in the country where ... well, quite a few things happen. First, there's her nasty host, Lord Fortescue, a man of considerable political influence and rather chummy with the Queen. Readers of Book II (A Poisoned Season) will remember Fortescue's attitude towards our amateur sleuth. In this book, the man's nastiness has cranked up a notch or three; not only does he try to accuse Emily of stealing politically sensitive documents, but he also tries to put a wedge in her relationship with Colin Hargreaves, by inviting Colin's former lover, the great, the beautiful, the picture perfect, awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, muse-worthy Countess von Lange.
But Lord Fortescue's ultimate dream of our heroine's social demise comes to a sudden halt as he is killed. And the man accused of his murder is Robert Brandon. Robert doesn't care much for Emily's modern thinking and 'outlandish' behavior, but now that it aides his cause, he needs her help to uncover who truly murdered Lord no-one-will-truly-miss-me Fortescue (his 'shooting' weekend was a huge success, I'd say!).
And so Emily travels to Vienna, where suicide is the new black, to uncover the truth. But she gets more than she's bargained for as she once again crosses paths with the brilliantly super-intelligent Countess von Lange. The countess, a Victorian Mother Theresa, is absolutely determined to retrieve her stolen property (Colin). But is Emily willing to pimp Colin to his former lover -- who owned him first? Or will Emily, selfish creature that she is, keep Colin all to herself?
Does Colin actually care?
What anarchists? What unsolved murder? Sissi who? Such tedious questions when there is pleasure to be had in the form of Countess von Lange, Vienna's local Alessandra Ambrosia.
Yes, yes, I found the countess as appealing as fingernails on chalkboard. This person is so unpleasant and I wonder that no one actually notices it, especially Colin. The countess doesn't hide her childish dislike for Emily, even in front of Emily's fianc?. One would immediately call it petty, but apparently, in Victorian society (and Colin's eye), this is 'worldly' and 'sophisticated'. A disappointing, soap opera-esque rival, to say the least.
Summary of A Fatal Waltz
At her friend Ivy's behest, Emily reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as odious as he is powerful. But if Emily is expecting Lord Fortescue to be the greatest of her problems, she is wrong. Her host has also invited Kristiana von Lange, an Austrian countess who was once linked romantically with Emily's fianc?, the debonair Colin Hargreaves. What Emily believes will be a tedious evening turns deadly when Fortescue is found murdered, and his prot?g?, Robert Brandon—Ivy's husband—is arrested for the crime.
Determined to right this terrible wrong and clear Robert's name, Emily begins to dig for answers, a quest that will lead her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid backstreets. Not until she engages a notorious anarchist in a game of wits does the shocking truth begin to emerge: the price of exonerating Robert can be paid only by placing Colin in deadly peril. To save her fianc?, Emily must do the unthinkable: bargain with her nemesis, the Countess von Lange.
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