Darcie Wilde: The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne
Rosalind Thorne/Useful Woman #9
The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne is the ninth volume in Darcie Wilde’s Rosalind Thorne/Useful Woman series of Regency mysteries, and I am very glad that the publisher finally recognizes that it’s all the same series. For a while, they were calling the last few volumes the Useful Woman Mysteries and renumbering them, starting from Book 1. Rosalind is a gentlewoman who has fallen on hard times after her father, who was deeply in debt, abandoned his family. She discovers she has a talent for solving people’s problems, and she makes a living by offering her assistance to gentlewomen and aristocrats in difficulty. Her cases often involve blackmail, scandal, and murder.