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A shooting party at the Earl of Witton s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.That s not Pat s biggest problem She s visiting her old friend, the Earl s heir Jimmy Yoxall but she wants to spend a lottime with Jimmy s fianc e The irrepressible Miss Fenella Carruth, with her laughing eyes and lush curves, is the most glorious woman Pat s ever met, and it quickly becomes impossible to remember why she needs to stay at arm s length.But while the women s attraction grows, the tensions at Rodington Court get worse Affairs, secrets, betrayals, and blackmail come to light And when a body is discovered with a knife between the shoulderblades, it s going to take Pat and Fen s combined talents to prevent the murderer destroying all their lives. New Read [ Proper English ] by [ K.J. Charles ] – kino-fada.fr Pat Merton and Fenella Carruth first appeared in my book Think of England and I have wanted to write their origin story ever since Here it is It takes place two years before the events of Think of England so, obviously, it s a standalone ,...How many country house murders do you think we re likely to encounter OH FEN, MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review, and I can honestly say I love these gun toting lesbians with my whole heart Also, going along with this whole honesty deal, I read the book and wrote this review on an 18 hour travel day so please forgive any delirium typos This book is a prequel of sorts to Think of England, so anyone who enjoyed that particular brand of Dr How many country house murders do you think we re likely to encounter OH FEN, MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review, and I can honestly say I love these gun toting lesbians with my whole heart Also, going along with this whole honesty deal, I read the book and wrote this review on an 18 hour travel day so please forgive any delirium typos This book is a prequel of sorts to Think of England, so anyone who enjoyed that particular brand of Dramatic Country House Blackmail Murders ToE was my first intro to the work of ...3.75 stars rounded upOld time readers fans of K.J Charles who have read Think of England might remember Patricia Merton and Fenella Carruth two secondary characters from the book Proper English is the prequel, set two years before the event in Think of England, that tells how Patricia and Fenella first met Patricia attends a shooting party while visiting her old friend, Jimmy Yoxall, who is recently engaged with Fenella.If I can use one word to describe this story, I will use DELIGHTFUL 3.75 stars rounded upOld time readers fans of K.J Charles who have read Think of England might remember Patricia Merton and Fenella Carruth two secondary characters from the book Proper English is the prequel, set two years before the event in Think of England, that tells how Patricia and Fenella first met Patricia attends a shooting party while visiting her old friend, Jimmy Yoxall, who is recently engaged with Fenella.If I can use one word to describe this story, I will use DELIGHTFUL Yes, there is one vile character who later ends up being the murder victim and he s been maliciously mak...A gloriously fun Agatha Christie style historical country house murder mystery, sparkling with wit and full of great characters, including a really lovely romance between two equally fabulous heroines I sta...I was looking forward to this prequel story with Pat and Fen from Think of England and I really enjoyed seeing these two women meet Pat is intelligent, self contained and practical, raised along with her brothers enough to have the expectation that a woman should be just as capable as a man She s a champion shot, and is used to running a household, but with the marriage of her oldest brother she s suddenly at loose ends, no longer mistress of his home She decides a brief holiday with an old f I was looking forward to this prequel story with Pat and Fen from Think of England and I really enjoyed seeing these two women meet Pat is intelligent, self contained and practical, raised along with her brothers enough to have the expectation that a woman should be just as capable as a man She s a champion shot, and is used to running a household, but with the marriage of her oldest brother she s suddenly at loose ends, no longer mistress of his home She decides a brief holiday with an old friend, Jimmy, at the beginning of partridge season will be relaxing good shooting and a chance to figure out th...4.5 stars B K.J Charles latest book is a companion piece to Think of England, in which readers were first introduced to Pat Morton and Fenella Fen Carruth, a pair of formidable ladies who seem already to be rather adept at solving mysteries Proper English takes place a couple of years before those events, and is their origin story, if you will It s a witty, sharply observed, sweetly romantic and clever country house murder mystery in short, everything you d expect from K.J Charles incl 4.5 stars B K.J Charles latest book is a companion piece to Think of England, in which readers were first introduced to Pat Morton and Fenella Fen Carruth, a pair of formidable ladies who seem already to be rather adept at solving mysteries Proper English takes place a couple of years before those events, and is their origin story, if you will It s a witty, sharply observed, sweetly romantic and clever country house murder mystery in short, everything you d expect from K.J Charles including the dead body Maybe especially the dead body Patricia Merton is at a bit of a crossroads in her life The youngest of five children with four older brothers her father never subscribed to the idea that girls couldn t and shouldn t do the things boys did, and he s grown up to be a confident, competent young woman who knows who she is and makes no apologies...This book should have been shorter, because there was some redundancy that seemed to be there only to show us how truly horrible a certain character is, view spoiler probably so we won t feel bad when he turns up murdered later, hide spoiler and it mired down the story a bit Also, I can t call this a mystery since that part didn t even kick in until the last third of the book, though once it did kick in it was fairly interesting if also a bit too long There was too much of everyone gett This book should have been shorter, because there was some redundancy that seemed to be there only to show us how truly horrible a certain character is, view spoiler probably so we won t feel bad when he turns up murdered later, hide spoiler and it mired down the story a bit Also, I can t call this a mystery since that part didn t even kick in until the last third of the book, though once it did kick in it was fairly interesting if also a bit too long There was too much of everyone getting caught up with what others are were doing, so things get repeated a lot.Thankfully, Pat and Fen rightly steal the show in this book and they re as delightful here as they were in Think of England This is a prequel, taking place two years before Think of England, and it s how Pat and Fen meet This isn t insta love butinsta like, which I mthan fine with, and it s hard not to understand why they re pulled so hard toward each other Fen s spent her life with no one taking her ...This is getting really annoying, Goodreads To say I finished a book before I actually have I would never throw a book unrated and without a review into the world Ugh So I will get back to this space as soon as I finish it Which will be later today So this was simply fantastic and all things delightful even though we are talking about a murder mystery KJ Charles normally writes m m and therefore she was to me at least an unknown author Apparently our two mains Patri This is getting really annoying, Goodreads To say I finished a book before I actually have I would never throw a book unrated and without a review into the world Ugh So I will get back to this space as soon as I finish it Which will be later today So this was simply fantastic and all things delightful even though we are talking about a murder mystery KJ Charles normally writes m m and therefore she was to me at least an unknown author Apparently our two mains Patricia Pat Merton and Fenella Fen Carruth were secondary characters in a previous novel Think of England set two years later Lucky for me and you, if you decide to read it and I think you should they got their own story giving us the origins on how they met.The setting is an old stone pile somewhere in Scotland where a shooting party is being held the game is partridge Pat, being a super...

Proper English
  • English
  • 18 September 2018
  • ebook
  • 243 pages
  • K.J. Charles
  • Proper English