An Infamous Betrayal
Lynn Messina
4/5
In this, the third book in the Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, Beatrice struggles to find a murder to investigate after the Duke has made certain rules against it. Bea won't let him confine her though, and she soon finds another mystery, one that connects to her original investigation, to pass the time. The Duke figures it out again, and they finally embark on a formal partnership together.
I went back and forth on what to rate this one because like, most of the book was witty and amazing and I loved the characters as I have these past two days reading them, but then the ending was just kind of eh. After struggling for so long to deal with societal expectations and how they could ever be together, there was a level of acceptance at the end that wasn't on par with the rest of the series. It felt abrupt and poorly defined, but I think it could be easily addressed and fixed through Bea's struggle in the next book, which I'm already started on.
This series is obviously very quick to read, there's a certain binge-watching element to it as you dive into each of the individual mysteries. But also, there's a nice fluent storyline where you're dying to know what's going on. I'm hoping for big things from the next two books in the series.
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