Marion Lane and the raven's revenge / T.A. Willberg.

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Title:

Marion Lane and the raven's revenge / T.A. Willberg.

Author:

Willberg, T. A., author.

ISBN:

9780778334194

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

A Marion Lane mystery novel ; [3]

Marion Lane (Series) ; 3.

General Note:

Sequel to: Marion Lane and the deadly rose.

Abstract:

"London, 1960. Marion Lane, a twenty-five-year-old apprentice detective at the elusive Miss Brickett's Investigations & Inquiries, is busier than ever and determined to prove herself worthy of an official Inquirer badge. But when her close friend's girlfriend, Darcy, is targeted by a dangerous gang leader and seeks out the Inquirers' assistance, Marion cannot help but get involved. Just when Marion thinks she has the situation under control, Darcy disappears and the agency receives a package containing a dead raven. Everyone is puzzled by what the threat could mean, except for Marion. She recognizes it as the same calling card left on her mother's doorstep just before she died. With harrowing twists and turns, Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge follows Marion's most personal case to date. To uncover who is behind these ominous packages and find Darcy, she must piece together how they are related to her mother's mysterious death and secretive past"--Page 4 of cover.

Subject Term:

Women private investigators -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.

Ravens -- Fiction.

Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical.

FICTION / Thrillers / Historical.

Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702

Mothers. (OCoLC)fst01026940

Nineteen sixties. (OCoLC)fst01037817

Ravens. (OCoLC)fst01090401

Women private investigators. (OCoLC)fst01178427

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- Fiction.

England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Historical fiction.

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Summary

"This is what would happen if a trainee James Bond was asked to solve an Agatha Christie mystery, and it's brilliant." --Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

The raven had struck. And the thing was, she knew exactly who was next...

London, 1960. Marion Lane, a twenty-five-year-old apprentice detective at the elusive Miss Brickett's Investigations & Inquiries, is busier than ever and determined to prove herself worthy of an official Inquirer badge. But when her close friend's girlfriend, Darcy, is targeted by a dangerous gang leader and seeks out the Inquirers' assistance, Marion cannot help but get involved.

Just when Marion thinks she has the situation under control, Darcy disappears and the agency receives a package containing a dead raven. Everyone is puzzled by what the threat could mean, except for Marion. She recognizes it as the same calling card left on her mother's doorstep just before she died.

With harrowing twists and turns, Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge follows Marion's most personal case to date. To uncover who is behind these ominous packages and find Darcy, she must piece together how they are related to her mother's mysterious death and secretive past.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Willberg's overstuffed third fantasy-adventure featuring 25-year-old apprentice detective Marion Lane (after 2022's Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose) suffers from a lack of focus. In 1960 London, Marion is nearly ready to graduate from bookseller-turned-detective Miss Brickett's Investigation and Inquiries bureau, the headquarters of which rests, Bond-like, beneath the city streets, complete with a gadgetry department. When a dead raven is mysteriously delivered to the bureau, Marion believes it is a message meant for her; her mother, Alice, received a similar warning before her death a decade earlier. Meanwhile, local businessman and philanthropist Oscar Biggar is strangled in a crowded public square, an event that leaves the police baffled. Marion believes Biggar's death confirms the return of the raven-obsessed killer who murdered her mother and sets out to investigate, opening old wounds as she circles in on a criminal who might be closer to her than she thinks. Willberg packs in plenty of action, but manages little tension, slowed as the novel is by momentum-stalling backstory. Series fans may enjoy reuniting with the characters and reveling in some outlandish gadgetry, but newbies need not apply. Agent: Hayley Steed, Madeleine Millburn Literary. (June)