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An Invitation To Murder (Lady Katherine Regency Mysteries Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Leighann Dobbs (Author), Harmony Williams (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Lady Katherine only has one week to catch the Pink-Ribbon Killer. Not only to stop the killing, but also to prove her skills at detection to her father and win her dowry and independence.

There’s only one catch—she has to take one last matchmaking job to do it. Never mind that the match is impossible—all the better because if she fails, then no one will seek her services again. The job provides the perfect cover, especially when her peculiar investigatory techniques are mistaken for unconventional matchmaking attempts.

Things would go a lot smoother if she weren’t knee-deep in suspects and thwarted at every turn by a rival matchmaker. But when the killer strikes again, Katherine’s investigation leads down a dangerous path. Too late, she discovers that she has a lot more to lose than her dowry.
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Leighann Dobbs is a USA Today bestselling author who discovered her passion for writing after a twenty-year career as a software engineer. Her book Dead Wrong won the Best Mystery Romance Award at the 2014 Indie Romance Convention. Her book Ghostly Paws was the 2015 Chanticleer Mystery & Mayhem First Place category winner in the animal mystery category. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband Bruce, their trusty Chihuahua mix Mojo and beautiful rescue cat, Kitty. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, gardening, making jewelry, or selling antiques.



Harmony Williams has been living vicariously in Regency-era England since she discovered Jane Austen. Since time machines don't yet exist, she's had to make do with books-fictional and nonfictional. On the rare occasions she doesn't have her nose stuck in a book, she likes to drink tea and spend time with her ninety-pound lapdog. A feminist, she writes stories about strong women and the men who support them as equals.

Beverley A. Crick is an actress, narrator, and accomplished voice-over artist. Her credits include film, television, commercials, radio, corporate narrations, looping, theater, comedy, and hosting.

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 26, 2017
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Another historical that kept me captivated from the very beginning to the very end!
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Another historical that kept me captivated from the very beginning to the very end!
Lady Katherine wants to live independently and follow in her father's footsteps as detective. Her father relents and says she can have her dowery and live as she wants if she manages to catch the Pink-Ribbon killer. No one else-including her father has been able to catch this person. In order to get invited to one of the few society dances she accepts a job as a matchmaker for a girl who no one thinks will ever find a husband with impeccable lineage! Well, you will laugh as Katherine acts as chaparone to this girl who loves, of all things, insects!Matchmaking can be a cut throat profession as you will find out--and another detective is dogging her footsteps to see if he can figure out the killer. But when another girl almost meets the same fate as two of the other socialite-and then the killer sets his sights on Katherine--well--This does have a surprisingly happy ending as the girl no one seems to want--finds the man of both theor dreams!Another historical that kept me captivated from the very beginning to the very end!
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Abbigail Holmes
5.0 out of 5 stars Cute & Entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023
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The very idea of a father who wants his daughter to catch a killer if she wants to get a dowry is a fantastic beginning for a story. But, since Lady Katherine's father is a detective, I guess that is quite a normal demand.
So, Lady Katherine is willing to catch a murderer whom even her father couldn't catch and doing so, find an adequate husband (that is another great part of the story!) for a shy girl who likes insects.
Great story, with intriguing main characters, definitely worth reading.
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Brenda Telford
4.0 out of 5 stars Historical cosy mystery!
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2018
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Lady Katherine took the matchmaking job under sufferance – but knew it would make a good cover story while she caught the Pink Ribbon Killer. Two young women had died during the season; with one last party for debutants to find husbands, Katherine knew it would be the perfect place for the killer to strike again. But not if she could help it…

Katherine’s father had stipulated she was to prove her ability by her birthday or lose her dowry – with only one week to do it in, she knew it would be tight. Her friend Lyle was one of the Bow Street Runners – she anticipated his help would be invaluable. As long as her father didn’t find out.

With very little to go on, and many whom she could call suspects, Katherine knew time was running out. She needed to dig more deeply as well as keep any prospective victims safe. Could she do it? Or was she putting herself in danger, along with other young women at the party?

An Invitation to Murder by Leighann Dobbs is the first in the Lady Katherine Regency Matchmaker series and a thoroughly entertaining beginning. With plenty of action, swooning ladies and arrogant lords and dukes in the mix, plus Emma, Katherine’s adorable pug, this historical cosy set in the Regency period has a lot to offer fans of the genre. Highly recommended.
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Elisabeth Kilmer
3.0 out of 5 stars Not a great start to what should be a good series.
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2017
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I like Leighann Dobbs but this is not one of her best books, mainly due to a glaring lack of research. The main character, Lady Katherine, is an independent-minded spinster in Regency England who wants to be a detective rather than a housewife. She sets about solving a series of country house murders while visiting a house party under the guise of being a matchmaker for an unattractive young woman. The characters are well-written and interesting. A large amount of "detecting" consists of snooping in guests' rooms and leaping to conclusions.

The authors, who admittedly make an accuracy disclaimer at the beginning, are so extremely inaccurate that a great deal of the reader's enjoyment is lost. They could at least have mastered Jane Austen's language style, or even copied Georgette Heyer's meticulously researched Regency slang. The Bow Street Runner character who invents detection aids is collecting fingerprints 30 years before they were even recognized as being worthy of attention and 60 years before they were used for identification at all! Additionally, they were called "finger marks" rather than "prints."

I know I am a collector of trivia, but there is another glaring mistake in this book: the characters run around outdoors every evening. But it would have been too cold to run around. 1816 was "The Year Without a Summer" - there was frost or snow every month of the year, due to a large volcanic explosion in Indonesia the year before, which cooled the whole earth's climate significantly.

The series has promise due to the clever characters, but the authors will need to step up their game for it to succeed.
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Gram
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful mystery
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
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The characters are very different and interesting. I love how
Lady Katherine is such an independent career seeker at a time where women were only seen as ranking extensions of their husband's wealth and position in society. She proves herself quite capable of embracing a career as a detective not at all suitable for a woman of her rank. The addition of the Bowstreet Investigators reminds one of one of the greatest detectives Sherlock Holmes. I look forward to reading the sequels.
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Joyce DiPastena
4.0 out of 5 stars A light, amusing mystery
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2023
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I found Invitation to Murder a very enjoyable read. My favorite character was Annie, a secondary character but so very different from typical Regency debutants. She added a fun, refreshing angle to the Regency backdrop of the mystery. I would happily read a romance with her (or someone like her) as the heroine! (The dog had a very funny moment too that literally made me laugh out loud.) Recommended for a light, amusing mystery.
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Babslot
5.0 out of 5 stars Matchmaker detective
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
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I liked it because it showed that a woman can be a detective even though the time period she was in didn't give women a chance to become anything but married. She found all the clues she needed without help from a man. The story is about a woman who is trying to get her inheritance from her father so that she can be an independent woman. She has to do this before her 25th birthday and without anybodies help.
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Diane Burnett
4.0 out of 5 stars An Invitation To Murder
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2023
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This was a fun read as Lady Katherine is investigating a murder while posing as a chaperone and matchmaker. The era when it was arranged by social contacts at house parties everyone stayed with their chaperones and matchmakers hoping for the perfect match.
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Rosemarie Haley
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2021
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This was my first Lady Katherine book and i found it to be a nice and easy book to read.It kept my interest from page one to the last.
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Roshen Dalal
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in India on July 26, 2020
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Fast moving and entertaining. A light book which keeps one engrossed. A woman's passion for moths, and a funny little pug are amusing.
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nightreader
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, games and murder in Regency England
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2017
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What a different time and life in Regency England. What an interesting story within the time of Regency! What a surprise that the main character is the daughter of an Earl and her heart's desire is to become a detective! I enjoyed reading this unique story with so much historical accuracy of the life and times. No wonder Lady Katherine wishes to escape the norm and become a detective like her father.

It is a time of inivisibility of females as persons, a time of seeking "approved" marriages for young maidens and of course that means seeking a high society and rich suitor to marry them. Mothers pushing their daughters to marry well, often calling on matchmakers to arrange a perfect match, as in seeking title and wealth, never mind compatibility.

I loved the blossoming of Annie, as well as the compatibility of this particular pairing. Annie is the downtrodden believed by everyone to be the one no one would want for a wife yet she alone will marry well. I also found it hilarious how the system worked in those days! Matchmakers, mothers, daughters, Lords, Earls, Dukes, everybody wants to be part of the aristocracy, I would say mostly mothers for their daughters with no thought to what these men might really be like. Even more, they seem to switch around. Who is with who? Who would rather be with someone else? Love certainly doesn't seem to be a part of the picture. But what is the picture? Murder seems to play a pretty big part in all this. Why? Can Katherine find the murderer before anyone else is attacked? Or will she be the next victim. Lots of red herrings in this search for a murderer. For that matter, it's pretty "fishy" trying to find out who is where with maidens all changing partners.
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Maree Croxon
4.0 out of 5 stars Murder for revenge
Reviewed in Australia on February 11, 2022
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Amazing what people will do and how they justify it. Interesting tale not sure too many of the upper class would believe their woman could do but can not keep a good woman down.
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Tb
4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet short read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2022
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Nothing taxing about this book. I had worked out the mystery long before the heroine, however it is a good read and a good blend of characters, setting ready for further adventures. Reminds me of cosy Sunday night detective stories on the TV.
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