As Death Draws Near - Anna Lee Huber

Written by Anna Lee Huber
Read by Heather Wilds
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Series: Lady Darby Mystery: Book 5
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Release date: July 5, 2016
Duration: 11:06:30

July 1831. In the midst of their idyllic honeymoon in England’s Lake District, a missive from her new father-in-law soon interrupts Kiera and Gage’s seclusion. A deadly incident involving a distant relative of the Duke of Wellington has taken place at an abbey south of Dublin, Ireland, and he insists that Kiera and Gage look into the matter.

Intent on discovering what kind of monster could murder a woman of the cloth, the couple travel to Rathfarnham Abbey School. Soon a second nun is slain in broad daylight near a classroom full of young girls. With the sinful killer growing bolder, the mother superior would like to send the students home, but the growing civil unrest in Ireland would make the journey treacherous.

Before long, Kiera starts to suspect that some of the girls may be hiding a sinister secret. With the killer poised to strike yet again, Kiera and Gage must make haste and unmask the fiend before their matrimonial bliss comes to an untimely end.

“–The real focus of the story is on the political tensions between the English and the Irish, the colonizers and the colonized, which are expressed as religious tensions between the English Anglicans and the Irish Catholics in the form of the tithe rebellions. Huber conveys these intricacies with a light touch through the prism of Lady Darby’s developing political awareness. Fans of historical mysteries will be rewarded.”—PW