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Another good mystery for the Petterils to solve in this, the eighth book in this series. There are still problems for the couple, a predictable twist and one niggling issue for me that spoilt my enjoyment somewhat.<\/p>\nAnother good mystery for the Petterils to solve in this, the eighth book in this series. There are still problems for the couple, a predictable twist and one niggling issue for me that spoilt my enjoyment somewhat.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the premise: a small baby is dumped on the Petterils\u2019 doorstep. Whose is it, and why was it left there? The natural assumption is that it\u2019s a by-blow of Piers\u2019, but he denies it. His relations, disapproving of April, suggest maybe it\u2019s hers until Piers points out the discrepancy in age and timing. So the search is on to find the mother\u2026 or the father, possibly. The mystery proceeds with some neat twists and turns, leading to a satisfactory resolution. I liked this part of the book very much.<\/p>\n
The other element involves April getting broody (not unexpectedly) but seemingly she believes she can\u2019t have children, and she\u2019s discussed this with Piers before they married. Now this really bothered me. I\u2019ve read the whole series to date, and I don\u2019t recall any such discussion. Well, my memory\u2019s not the best, so maybe I\u2019ve just forgotten, but I spent quite a bit of time trawling through previous books looking for any reference to this, only to come up empty-handed. Now this shouldn\u2019t matter, but when something is presented as having occurred earlier, and it\u2019s something so important (Piers is a viscount, after all, so an heir might be important to him), I\u2019d expect it to be memorable\u2026 or at least findable. I\u2019m afraid that every time the subject arose, I was so cross that it became very distracting. I\u2019d love to know whether I just missed the earlier discussion or whether it actually wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n
But that aside, this is another good read, which would have been five stars but for that annoying niggle. So four stars it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another good mystery for the Petterils to solve in this, the eighth book in this series. There are still problems for the couple, a predictable twist and one niggling issue for me that spoilt my enjoyment somewhat. Here\u2019s the premise: a small baby is dumped on the Petterils\u2019 doorstep. Whose is it, and why was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-lancaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}