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"Final installment in the Lavinia Lake/Tobias March mystery series is the best!"
Reviewed by Sue Burke
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted April 9, 2003

The unstoppable team of Lavinia Lake and Tobias March join forces for the third time in the Case of the Memento-Mori Man. While attending a country house party, Lavinia and Tobias involve themselves in the murder of Lord Fullerton, a respected member of the ton. An old memento-mori ring Read more...

"March-Lake Regency mystery"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted April 24, 2003

In Regency England, private inquiry agents Tobias March and Lavinia Lake look forward to the weekend party because the lovers rarely spend any time alone. However, a ghost from Tobias' past, Aspasia Gray also attends the party. She wants to hire him because someone left an old memento-mori Read more...

"Regency Romantic Suspense"
Reviewed by Linda Hurst
Posted May 16, 2003

LATE FOR THE WEDDING is the third installment of the team of Lavinia Lake and Tobias March, who are both lovers and detective partners in Regency England. Lavinia and Tobias began life as a very prickly pair in Slightly Shady and it has been great fun watching this wary Read more...

The third book in Amanda Quick's Regency romantic-suspense series featuring Lavinia Lake and Tobias March...

Summary

An invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia's most exasperating challenge: how to escape the chaos of London for a remote, relaxing--and above all romantic--retreat from prying eyes and wagging tongues. But the lovers' plans are foiled when their first cozy interlude of the weekend is disrupted by the appearance of a stunning woman from Tobias's past. Aspasia Gray's beauty is as haunting as her connection to Tobias. Her long-deceased fiancé was a friend of his--in addition to being an eccentric assassin. The mysterious nature of the bond between Tobias and Aspasia makes Lavinia more than a little uncomfortable. Especially as her first encounter with Aspasia occurs when she finds her in Tobias's bedchamber...

It seems Aspasia is seeking protection--and solace--after receiving an ominous message that eerily recalls the past. Suddenly the obstacles standing betweenTobias and Lavinia appear greater than just a little London gossip--and far more deadly.When events at the castle suggest someone is imitating the dead killer's methods, the team of Lake and March fervently pursue the investigation--and each other-- as their leads take them from Society's most elegant haunts- -and most discreet hideaways--to London's shadiest backstreets. As their relationship heats up, so does the intrigue. Soon Lavinia will have to employ all her talents to flummox the scoundrel who so rudely interrupted her rendezvous. And then she and Tobias can get back to more pleasurable affairs.