Death Wears a Mask
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Amory Ames is looking forward to a tranquil period of reconnecting with reformed playboy husband Milo after an unexpected reconciliation following the murderous events at the Brightwell Hotel. Amory hopes a quiet stay at their London flat will help mend their dysfunctional relationship. However, she soon finds herself drawn into another investigation when Serena Barrington asks her to look into the disappearance of valuable jewelry snatched at a dinner party.
Unable to say no to an old family friend, Amory agrees to help lay a trap to catch the culprit at a lavish masked ball hosted by the notorious Viscount Dunmore. But when one of the illustrious party guests is murdered, Amory is pulled back into the world of detection, enlisted by old ally Detective Inspector Jones. As she works through the suspect list, she struggles to fend off the advances of the very persistent viscount even as rumors swirl about Milo and a French film star. Once again, Amory and Milo must work together to solve a mystery where nothing is as it seems, set in the heart of 1930s society London.
"Death Wears a Mask" is the second novel in Ashley Weaver's witty and stylish Amory and Milo Ames mystery series.
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Amory Ames is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Ashley Weaver.
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I enjoy this series, though I have to admit this one had some bumpy parts. The romance elements worked for me, even though I prefer my ratio of mystery to romance to be more like 80/20 and this series tends to feel more like 50/50.
The mystery part in this one could've used some work. There were more clues than the last installment, which I liked, but it was also fairly obvious who committed the murder. I don't always hate guessing the murderer, but in this case it felt like the protagonist was an oblivious idiot to not piece it together.
Speaking of, this time I went back and forth between the print version and the audio book. The narrator in the audio book does some voices well, but not the voice of the protagonist. Since the book is in first person, that made things rough. Her voice sounded fake and annoying most of the time, and the narrator seemed unable to voice the subtext in a lot of the banter.
So I enjoyed it but I wanted it to be even better.
