Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden | Rhys Bowen
5 posts | 6 read | 5 to read
It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway's brightest stars and Fifth Avenue's richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she's going to work more than one case at a time, then she's going to need some help. Molly's beau, the recently and wrongly suspended police captain Daniel Sullivan, would make an ideal associate, but before they can agree on the terms of his employment, they stumble upon a young woman lying unconscious in the middle of a snow-covered Central Park. When the woman wakes up she is disorientated and has and lost her ability to speak, the authorities are about to pack her off to an insane asylum when Molly can't help but step in and take on yet another case. Lively and colorful, full of absorbing historical detail and delightful characters, Tell Me, Pretty Maiden is another gem in Rhys Bowen's multiple award-winning series.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
Danay
post image

21 #34 Had to see what Molly was up to!

1 stack add
blurb
Tove_Reads
post image

A big fan of Ireland, Irish history, and the Golden age of the good auld days of the west coast of the US, and the lovely countryside of Wales... ❤️💜💙🏔 Often I find her references to real historical events and persons refreshing - in a Murdoch kinda way. Easy to read, but gives you something new every time! Enjoyable, great craic!

rubyslippersreads These are on my TBR list. 6y
benchley1 I like her Royal Spyness series. 6y
Tove_Reads @rubyslippersreads Started last year with Molly. Continued this year with Evans. I am charmed! It‘s not fluff. I loooove good cozies, but so many are too blah. 6y
Tove_Reads @benchley1 Not there yet, but will def read them in the near future! Now I‘m binge watching GG! (edited) 6y
CarolynM I've read the first Royal Spyness and enjoyed it. I have a few more to get into sometime 6y
39 likes2 stack adds5 comments
review
kspenmoll
post image
Pickpick

#Booked2018 #cozymystery
This cozy touched upon many social issues of its time. Set in early 20th century NYC, MC Molly Murphy, Irish immigrant, owns a detective agency. 3 simultaneously cases take us she & partner on road from NYC to New Haven CT. Issues that surface:struggles of women in a time of no vote, poverty, class,insane asylum,Sicilian mob,romance, theatre world,homosexuality. Historically accurate settings, characters. Intriguing cozy.

kspenmoll I know I share this frustration-while this is a pick for me due to its historical accurate descriptions/depictions ( appearance by Nellie Bly) & Molly‘s struggles in a make dominated world, it is not anywhere near the pick The Heart‘s Invisible Furies is! So I would say for the genre ( cozy) it‘s a high pick.😀 (edited) 6y
Cinfhen Great review!! Book sounds good, especially for a cozy!!!! Well done on completing a prompt😊 6y
Cinfhen You might like this one @Reviewsbylola 6y
kspenmoll @Cinfhen Thanks! 6y
69 likes2 stack adds4 comments
blurb
kspenmoll
post image

#NewYearsEve #readingtomidnight #booksandbeer #beerandbooks
Finally got to pick up this book- have read less than an hour the last two days- 😩 obviously this book will not be finished for 2017. only on p.47 of 291. New Year in 38 min. 🥂🎉💃🏻🍾🍛🎊

62 likes1 stack add
blurb
kspenmoll
post image

#booksandwine #wineandbooks #mysterybreak
#libraryfind #nextup #ReadingthroughtheHolidays2017

Next up. Break after completing Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine yesterday.

tpixie Nice Ohio!! 6y
Eggs Rhys Bowen 😍 6y
63 likes2 comments