Murder in the Eternal City

Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Book 16

By: Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

Narrated by: James Gillies

When I agree to visit Grenville in his villa near Rome, I scarcely imagine that I immediately will become embroiled in mystery and mayhem. James Denis has requested that I purchase an antique from a collector, one Conte de Luca. Before I can approach this count, I am recruited by a Roman a man to help rescue his daughter from a cool aristocrat, and then asked to solve the murder of an Englishman—by a man who is already dead.

These tasks do not keep me from traveling to the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum and exploring to my heart’s content, but trouble follows me in the form of a man bent on killing me—for what reason I cannot fathom.

All this is compounded by another murder back in Rome, and I am commanded by James Denis, as well as the aristocrat who stole my new Roman friend’s daughter, to find out who committed the deed and the secret of the man’s astonishing collection of rare and fine art.

Probing these puzzles lead me to the past, present, and future troubles of the Italian peninsula, a beautiful but deadly place in the spring of 1820.

©2022 Jennifer Ashley (P)2022 Jennifer Ashley

Fantastic

I am crying because this is the last in this series so far!! How can you not love Lacey? Fantastic as always and will miss the narrator!!

Just okay

I didn't find this story as interesting as the ones before it but it won't stop me from reading any that follow.

terrible italian accent

I could not listen to any more of Gillies' Italian accent and did not even finish the book..I liked all the other 15 books and enjoyed his reading. But he never should have left England! Won't be buying anymore of these books and I'll miss all the characters from England. They made the books interesting..but the characters in this book are so boring and the reader's accent was too terrible to listen to any longer.