Death Wears a Mask by Ashley WeaverMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Amory and Milo are back in London, two months after the first book. They are love's young dream until Milo is seen escorting a sultry French actress around town, is he up to his old tricks?
Amory is invited to a dinner party by Mrs Barrington who asks her to investigate the theft of several valuable items of jewellery. Mrs Barrington has narrowed down her group of suspects to the other guests at the dinner party. Amory is half-heartedly investigating when Mrs Barrington comes up with a half-baked scheme to bait a trap for the thief at Lord Dunmore's masked ball. Things go horribly awry and instead of catching a thief Mrs Barrington's nephew is murdered.
Yet another great mystery in the style of Agatha Christie or Georgette Heyer's crime novels. My only misgiving is that I had seen a similar plot device in another book (possibly even a Georgette Heyer mystery) and therefore I already suspected the murderer. However, that aside, I love Amory and Milo and their upper-class lifestyles, I mean how many men go to stay in a suite at The Ritz when their wife kicks them out of the house?
Recommended for those that like amateur detective mysteries set amongst the British aristocracy.
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