The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla: A Pink Carnation Novel by Lauren Willig
Sally Fitzhugh is enjoying the
Little Season in London in the early nineteenth century, attending balls and visiting
parlours and generally being disappointed in the whole thing. That is until she meets the Duke of
Belliston, a reputed vampire, who seems to be disturbingly only human as well
as disturbingly handsome. Someone is
trying to set the Duke up for murder and Sally comes to the rescue, poking her
nose where it doesn’t belong and generally bossing everyone around. Good thing she does or the Duke may be in jail. Misunderstandings, true love, madmen and
murderous plots ensue.
I am a huge fan of the Pink
Carnation series and I still love them even eleven books into the series which
is no small feat. It seems that the next
book may be the last which I find exceedingly upsetting, but it has to end
sometime. There are only so many spies,
friends of spies, and friends of friends of spies to wed off after all!
As per usual I listened to this one
and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you are
looking for romantic suspense heavy on the witty repartee and the suspense
check out this series. You don’t need to
start with the first book, but it’s a fun series so why not?
