Today the blog tour for Claudia Gray’s The Late Mrs. Willoughby stops by for my review. Let me share the blurb with you, and then I’ll tell you what I thought of the story.
The
suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees
Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another mystery to solve:
the dreadful poisoning of the scoundrel Willoughby's new wife.
Catherine
and Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey are not entirely pleased to be sending
their eligible young daughter Juliet out into the world again: the last house
party she attended, at the home of the Knightleys, involved a murder—which
Juliet helped solve. Particularly concerning is that she intends to visit her
new friend Marianne Brandon, who's returned home to Devonshire shrouded in
fresh scandal—made more potent by the news that her former suitor, the rakish
Mr. Willoughby, intends to take up residence at his local estate with his new
bride.
Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley are thrilled that their eldest
son, Jonathan—who, like his father, has not always been the most socially
adept—has been invited to stay with his former schoolmate, John Willoughby.
Jonathan himself is decidedly less taken with the notion of having to spend
extended time under the roof of his old bully, but that all changes when he
finds himself reunited with his fellow amateur sleuth, the radiant Miss Tilney.
And when shortly thereafter, Willoughby's new wife—whom he married for her
fortune—dies horribly at the party meant to welcome her to town.
With rumors flying and Marianne—known to be both unstable and previously jilted
by the dead woman's newly made widower—under increased suspicion, Jonathan and
Juliet must team up once more to uncover the murderer. But as they collect
clues and close in on suspects, eerie incidents suggest that the killer may
strike again, and that the pair are in far graver danger than they or their
families could imagine.
