Allison Montclair Livres

Alors que Londres se reconstruit après la seconde guerre mondiale, deux femmes que tout oppose - l'impulsive Miss Iris Sparks à l'esprit vif et Mrs Gwendolyn Bainbridge, mère et veuve pragmatique - s'associent pour monter une agence matrimoniale, le Bureau du mariage idéal. Mais leur commerce menace de s'écrouler quand leur cliente, Tillie La Salle, est retrouvée morte : tout accuse le potentiel mari qu'elles lui avaient trouvé. Certaines que la police fait erreur, Sparks et Bainbridge décident de mener leur propre enquête. Elles ne savent pas encore qu'elles vont mettre leur vie en danger

*A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week!* In Allison Montclair's A Rogue's Company, business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear. In London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet and expanding. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are making a go of it. That is until Lord Bainbridge—the widowed Gwen's father-in-law and legal guardian—returns from a business trip to Africa and threatens to undo everything important to her, even sending her six-year-old son away to a boarding school. But there's more going on than that. A new client shows up at the agency, one whom Sparks and Bainbridge begin to suspect really has a secret agenda, somehow involving the Bainbridge family. A murder and a subsequent kidnapping sends Sparks to seek help from a dangerous quarter—and now their very survival is at stake.

In London, 1946, Miss Iris Sparks - currently co-proprietor of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau - has to deal with aspects of her past exploits during the recent war that have come back around to haunt her.

Set in post-war London, this mystery follows Miss Iris Sparks, co-owner of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau, as she confronts the lingering shadows of her wartime past. As old secrets resurface, Sparks must navigate personal challenges while unraveling a new case, blending elements of suspense and character development in the vibrant backdrop of 1946. The story delves into themes of resilience and the complexities of relationships in a changing world.

More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor of a royal princess in Allison Montclair's delightful second novel, A Royal Affair.

In Allison Montclair's The Lady from Burma, murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the surprisingly dangerous landscape of post-World War II London...