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    The Burning Issue of the Day
    The Burning Issue of the Day
    The Burning Issue of the Day
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Burning Issue of the Day

    Written by T E Kinsey

    Narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent.

    When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

    With her trusted maid and confidante, the formidable Flo, Lady Hardcastle sets off in pursuit of the truth as time runs out for the accused suffragette. Was she set up? And if so, is the real culprit a traitor to the cause—or part of a darker conspiracy?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 18, 2019
    ISBN9781721386802
    The Burning Issue of the Day
    Author

    T E Kinsey

    T E Kinsey grew up in London and read history at Bristol University. He worked for a number of years as a magazine features writer before falling into the glamorous world of the Internet, where he edited content for a very famous entertainment website for quite a few years more. After helping to raise three children, learning to scuba dive and to play the drums and the mandolin (though never, disappointingly, all at the same time), he decided the time was right to get back to writing. Death Around the Bend is the third in a series of mysteries starring Lady Hardcastle. You can follow him on Twitter—@tekinsey—and also find him on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tekinsey.

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic series. Definitely worth the read. Light and easy, but factually interesting
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed the exchange between My Lady and Flo her companion, the wit and polite ways.
    • 4/5
      A really fun mystery where Lady Hardcastle and Flo are joined by a couple of other ladies to solve a murder and foil a gold robbery!
    • 5/5
      I‘be been a fan of Lady Hardcastle and Florence Armstrong since book one. When I found out the other day that there is a new audiobook out, I immediately purchased it. My current reading list is fairly long, but of course I made time to listen to this latest installment.
      I was not disappointed. The story is well written, amusing, and with a lot of historical background, as usual.
      Again, I felt as if I was there, trying to unravel the mystery. Here, you have it all: suffragettes, politics, corruption, and other criminal activities. We meet old friends and new ones, old enemies and unlikely alliances. Although I ‘m not usually a fan of long series, I look forward to the next case, because I’d love to return to the countryside with Lady H and Flo.
      Elizabeth Knowelden once again delighted me with her narration.
    • 4/5
      January 1910 and a shop in Thomas Street has been set ablaze late one evening. Leaflets and a note point to suffragette Lizzy Worrwel, as guility and whois consequently arrested. Unfortunately the next day a body was discovered inside. This turned out to be Christian Brookfield, a journalist. Therefore the police are treating it as a closed case but Lady Emily Hardcastle is asked to investigate, with the help of her maid Florence Armstrong. Both who have in past lives had many adventures as government spies.
      An entertaining well-paced historical cozy mystery, number five in this well-written series.
      A NetGalley Book
    • 4/5
      Reading a Lady Hardcastle mystery never fails to brighten my day. And if you think reading a mystery-- and a humorous mystery to boot-- is a waste of time, think again. In The Burning Issue of the Day, I learned quite a bit about the fight for women's suffrage in Bristol, England, as well as the settings for several scenes in the book. (The author's notes at the end of the book are well worth reading.)For once, a pair of (not-so-amateur) sleuths have a good working relationship with the local detective inspector, and that's something I greatly appreciate. Lady Hardcastle and Florence Armstrong are marvelous characters, and I love their lively banter. Well, to be honest, I love all the humor in the entire series. In this fifth book, we get the added bonus of learning a bit more about these two women's escapades before they settled down in a small English village.Whodunit was rather easy to deduce, but I didn't care because I enjoy the characters, the setting, and the humor too much. If you like historical crime fiction and need to read something that can put a smile on your face, pick up one of T.E. Kinsey's Lady Hardcastle mysteries. You can pick this one up and not feel lost, but don't be surprised if, once you've read this book, you go back to read all the others. They're little gems, and perfect for learning things and for a badly needed pick-me-up.
    • 4/5
      Lively only slightly improbable characters drive this series nicely. The basic surmise and plot are also suitably improbable and quite entertaining.