An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)
Deanna Raybourn
While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her eldest brother, Jonathan, heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed in the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa a few years before. But now a man matching Jonathan's description and carrying his possessions has arrived at Hathaway Hall with no memory of his identity or where he has been. Could this man truly be Jonathan, back from the dead? Or is he a devious impostor, determined to gain ownership over the family's most valuable possessions--a legendary parure of priceless Rajasthani jewels? It's a delicate situation, and Veronica is Sir Hugo's only hope. Veronica and Stoker agree to go to Hathaway Hall to covertly investigate the mysterious amnesiac. Veronica is soon shocked to find herself face-to-face with a ghost from her past. To help Sir Hugo discover the truth, she must open doors to her own history that she long believed to be shut for good.
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Thank you so much to Berkley and Netgalley for providing an e-arc copy of this. All thoughts and opinions are still my own.
After being disappointed by book 6 I was really nervous going into this next book. But this book delivered everything I loved about the first 5 books in this series. The romance, tension, and mystery had me invested from start to finish.
One of my favorite things about this series, is the fantastically crafted mysteries with high stakes encounters. This book has a layer of humor that keeps it from feeling too heavy, which I love, but when the MCs find themselves in dangerous situations, it always feels dangerous. I never know how they'll get out of these wild situations and I love following along with them.
In this new addition, we learn a lot about Veronica's history. I loved that we finally got a peak at what she was like before book 1 (especially since we've already gotten Stoker's backstory). I audibly gasped when parts of her history were revealed!
I also love that the mysteries completely wrap up in each of these stories and only minor threads are left to weave them all together. And at the end of this one, we're left wondering how our MCs will overcome this hurdle.
Honestly book 8 better have many a page of Veronica begging for forgiveness at Stoker's feet
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