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Dear Mrs. Raybourn,
I remember when historical mysteries first started to become really popular. Then after that it seems that every possible time period and social class of historical sleuth got turned into some author’s hero or heroine. And I got a little bored with the genre and annoyed at thinking about Queen Elizabeth, Jane Austen or Beau Brummel being turned into crime scene investigators. Cut to me getting the arc of your second Lady Julia Gray novel, “Silent in the Sanctuary,” a few months ago - yes, I did read it a month ago and took notes and never got the review written, mea culpa - and the lovely cover with its gothic overtones plus the intriguing back blurb made me decide to come out of my self-imposed historical mystery celibacy.
Lady Julia is delightful. She’s obviously growing as a character. From the information you subtly include about the events of the first book - the details of which, thank God, are left unknown - we can see that she’s survived whatever was thrown at her, picked herself back up and begun to assert a little independence. After five …
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