His Lordship's Return

One of my favourite couples returns again! Only this time it was a little regressive.

Our two leads get a letter from their old cook (a major part of Alfie's life and the story in book 1) down in London about her husband being deathly ill. Out of their respect for her, they leave the countryside immediately to try and assist. Unfortunately, he's already passed by the time they arrive and are instead attending a funeral. After returning home from the services, they find the cook's granddaughter's fianc?? dead in the living room. Alfie tries to use his influence as a duke to get the Metro police to help but because of the low status of the fianc??, it's no use. Doing a little investigating of their own gets them back deep into an underground they both thought was long behind them.

I didn't enjoy the return back to London because it was almost a repeat of the first book, only with a little more self-pity because they've returned AGAIN back to the slums they thought they'd freed themselves from. I'm not sure what other stories these two will have without leaving the country if they're just going back and forth from London to Scotland, getting themselves involved in murder mysteries. However, despite the lacklustre plot, I really like SoRelle's writing and characters so I still thoroughly enjoyed the book. This made me what to re-read the series from the start so SoRelle's got it right.