Details
- Genre: Historical fiction
- Series: The Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency (Book #2)
- Length: 364 pages (Kindle edition)
- Publication Date: August 3, 2021
Tropes
- Forced proximity
- Secret identity
- Fish out of water
My Rating
Book Description
“Miss Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. Known for her ability to puzzle out plots, she prefers working behind the scenes for the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, staying well away from danger. However, Daphne soon finds herself in the thick of an attempted murder case she’s determined to solve.
Mr. Herman Henderson is also a mystery writer, but unlike the dashing heroes he pens, he lives a quiet life, determined to avoid the fate of his adventurous parents, who perished on an expedition when he was a child. But when he experiences numerous attempts on his life, he seeks out the services of the eccentric Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency to uncover the culprit. All too soon, Herman finds himself stepping out of the safe haven of his world and into an adventure he never imagined.
As the list of suspects grows and sinister plots are directed Daphne’s way as well, Herman and Daphne must determine who they can trust and if they can risk the greatest adventure of all: love.”
— from Goodreads
My Review
With her nerves and tendency to faint, Daphne Beekman sometimes doubts she’s capable of being an inquiry agent. But in To Write a Wrong, she confronts an attempted murder case as well as issues related to her writing career. And despite several challenges, she rises to the occasion in her own way.
The mystery involves many suspects. Each one has a plausible motive, which makes singling out the true culprit quite a puzzle.
Herman and Daphne’s meet cute sure was something. (Daphne was dressed as a pirate; there was also some bad poetry and menacing guard dogs.) I really enjoyed watching their romance develop. Every scene they shared made me love them together more and more.
There were also some sweet scenes between Daphne and her family. (Especially how they comforted and defended her after that encounter with Thomas.)
The rope station exercise at the end was a great callback, showing how much Daphne had grown since the start of the book.
Up next is the third and final book in the series, where Eunice’s past is finally revealed.
See Content Notes (contains spoilers)
brief mention of cheating husbands, murder and attempted murder, pistols, mention of losing family members, mentions of bustles and corsets, blood, touching, noticing and awareness, asylums and women being forcibly institutionalized, duels and challenging someone to a duel, mention of a woman having “the look of an adventuress,” several uses of “good heavens,” kissing, one of her older brother’s friends says that certain things Daphne did when she was only 10 – 13 years old (wading in a creek with her brothers, twirling her hair, etc.) was her “trying out” her “feminine wiles” on him and “whetting his appetite” for her, the man says Daphne (who was a young girl at the time) twirled her hair in “a most provocative manner,” the man attempts (unsuccessfully) to force himself on Daphne, it’s revealed that same man attempted (again unsuccessfully) to force himself on Daphne when she was 13, Daphne worries the man might have “done something” to her after she fainted (she is assured that this wasn’t the case), mention that the man would have likely bragged about his “prowess with women” if he had succeeded, a man attempts to kidnap a woman to force her to marry him, mention of women being assaulted by men (no details), mention of men potentially trying to take unwanted liberties (no details)
Favorite Moments
✏️ “Possibility of love at first sight”
✏️ An unexpected swim in the Hudson
✏️ Herman protecting Daphne from Thomas
✏️ Herman telling Daphne he wants to court her
✏️ Herman proposing to Daphne
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