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    The Maid's Secret
    The Maid's Secret
    The Maid's Secret
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Maid's Secret

    Written by Emily Organ

    Narrated by Gabrielle Baker

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    About this audiobook

    The truth is rarely simple.

    London 1884. Victorian industrialist Alexander Glenville is a man with many secrets. Fleet Street reporter Penny Green is tasked with working undercover as a maid in his home, but tragedy strikes when Glenville's daughter is poisoned.

    Penny's insider knowledge is crucial for Scotland Yard's murder investigation, but someone in the Glenville household already suspects that she's more than just a servant. Can Penny and Inspector James Blakely solve the mystery before Penny's cover is blown?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 25, 2018
    ISBN9781541443938
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    • 4/5
      London 1884 and Fleet Street reporter Penny Green is tasked to go undercover into the household of Victorian industrialist Alexander Glenville to find information on his working practices. Unfortunately for Penny a death occurs.
      A well-written slow paced mystery, another enjoyable story in this series.
    • 2/5
      The setting was believable, and I liked little additions like rules for cycling. The characters were likeable.
      However, I found plot holes and off moments in the story. I really don't like wondering "Why did they allow her to do that?" and then realise "Oh! so it is because she doesn't do the other thing instead, which would give the answer in the first half of the book!" Also, I couldn't believe Penny with all her blunders managed to stay undercover for so long!
      The ending was also quite sudden. They make an appeal in the newspaper, and then it jumps to the big reveal, which was quite Hercule Poirot-ish in tone. Makes me want to re-read a few narrated by Hastings and see if he was quite as clueless as Penny Green, at the end.
      And I still did not get WHY the girl (The rich one - to avoid spoilers) had to die the way she did anyway? Couldn't the murderer find a more efficient and less messy way of doing away with her? And the way the poison was hidden - was it necessary? I don't think so...
      I think it may have been a case of the writer having an interesting idea but execution becoming problematic.
      Everything said and done - it was an OK read.