The Sisterhood

Lady Emily Mysteries, Book 19

De: Tasha Alexander

Narrado por: Justine Eyre

London, 1907: When the Season's most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. But all is not what it seems, and after a toxic beverage is revealed to be the cause of death, the king himself instructs Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves to unearth the truth.

Who would want to harm one of the most popular women of the year? Is it her fiancé with whom she had an unusually brief courtship; a rival for his affections bitter at being cast aside; her best friend who is almost certainly hiding a secret from Colin and Emily; a disappointed suitor with a hidden gambling habit; or a notorious jewel thief who has taken a priceless tiara from the Goldsborough home? When a second debutante succumbs to poison, the race is on to find a ruthless killer.

Emily and Colin's investigation leads to a centuries old tomb in the center of London with a mysterious link to another death dating back to Roman times and the violent reign of Boudica, ancient Britain's fearsome warrior queen. As the stakes rise and the clock ticks down, Emily must find the killer before they strike again.

©2025 Tasha Alexander (P)2025 Tantor Media

Don't care for the Narrator

This part of the series was ok but the different narrator made if hard to listen. I miss Bianca Amato and hope she will be back for the next one.

Narrator really distracted from story

This was an okay contribution to the series. I really did not like the narrator. She made Emily sound like a teenager. Bring back Bianca Amato who has done a wonderful Emily in the previous books.

Everthing

Great listen. I am not sure what I liked best the story or the narration. Both were outstanding. Tasha had me searching deeper into history I did not know about. O.k. Tasha, next!

Come back Tasha Alexander!

I fell in love with this series during the pandemic. Alexander’s deft and well-researched mix of historical fiction with late Victorian lady detective fiction ticked all the boxes for me. These last two installments have been increasingly disappointing, however, and this latest the most unsatisfying. Neither storyline is fully excavated, characters are underdeveloped, and literally NOTHING happens to develop or deepen Emily’s character arc or story. She and Colin are exactly the same at the end as they were at the beginning of the narrative. The Britannia sections are so brief that we really have no connection to the historical world of Britain under Roman rule and don’t spend enough time with these characters to become invested in their outcomes. The central murder mystery reads as, frankly, implausible and flimsy. This is not the Tasha Alexander whose intricate storytelling so compelled me. I’m happy to hear this was the final Lady Emily book—it would be a tortuous to continue propping her up with these half-hearted, “phoning it in” narratives.