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Rosemary Simpson

Book Review: Death at the Falls by Rosemary Simpson

By Janet Webb

December 2, 2022

October 1890. It’s no surprise that private investigators Prudence MacKenzie and Geoffrey Hunter welcome the opportunity to “get out of Dodge” aka New York City: New York is too hot for them given the sordid sexual nature of their recent investigations. The partners are intrigued to be offered a case in Niagara Falls. They can’t…

Book Review: The Dead Cry Justice by Rosemary Simpson

By Janet Webb

December 20, 2021

The Dead Cry Justice by Rosemary Simpson is the sixth book in the Gilded Age Mystery series, where heiress-turned-sleuth Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter step out of the elite society of Gilded Age New York and venture into the city’s crime ridden streets and most dangerous neighborhoods to search for two missing children. If…

Book Review: Death, Diamonds, and Deception by Rosemary Simpson

By Janet Webb

December 7, 2020

Rosemary Simpson’s 5th Gilded Age mystery is infused with difficult choices, secrets, and sadness although these sober notes are not immediately apparent. Under the chaperonage of her exquisite Aunt Gillian, Prudence MacKenzie prepares for the Assembly Ball at Delmonico’s. Colleen, Prudence’s Irish maid, laces her mistress into the “whale-boned corset” that the sumptuous gown demands.…

Book Review: Death Brings a Shadow by Rosemary Simpson

By Angie Barry

November 26, 2019

Prudence is to serve as maid of honor to her good friend Eleanor Dickson at an opulent wedding that will unite the extremely wealthy (and Yankee) Dickson family with the Bennetts, Southern aristocrats fallen on hard times in the wake of the Civil War. Eleanor deeply cares for her fiancé, Teddy Bennett, and the affection…

Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

Book Review: Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

By Eleanor Kuhns

November 27, 2018

Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson is the third Gilded Age New York mystery featuring heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter. When Claire Buchanan arrives in the office of MacKenzie and Hunter, she claims her sister was murdered. An opera singer, Claire had been in Europe when her sister died and…

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