The Shadowed Blade by Lexi Conyngham💙📚
Jodi Taylor #BookRecommendation
I’ve just finished The Shadowed Blade by Lexi Conyngham – the latest in the Hippolyta Napier series. The series is set in a small Scottish village in the 1840s. Hippolyta is the doctor’s wife and, frankly, the 19th century’s answer to Joyce Barnaby, and always manages to be on hand when someone meets an untimely end.
This time the action centres around the temperance movement, a member of whom is found impaled upon an enormous claymore. And then a second member is stabbed to death in a dark lane. What on earth is going on? The village of Ballater is normally fairly divorced from events in the outside world, but with earthquakes in Stirling and social unrest throughout the country – the outside world is there with a bang.
This is an excellent murder mystery – the characters are well-drawn and believable and the setting is impeccable. Lexi Conyngham’s creation of time and place is always first-rate.
Check out her other series as well. The Orkneyinga and Murray of Letho are my favourites and highly recommended.
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