I stayed up till 4:00 this morning reading this book, it was just too good to put down. Right now my husband is out of town, so my laughter through various parts of the book didn't bother anyone but my dog. Jen Turano has a winning series with her Bleeker Street Inquiry Agency books. The first one in this series was reviewed here.
To Write a Wrong can be read as a stand-alone book without losing any of the substance to the plot. Daphne is the mystery writer Montague Moreland and she is working on a deadline, but she can't get her hero, a pirate named Mad Eye Willy, out of the predicament he's in. To try to find inspiration, she dons a pirate's costume and takes the one-eyed dog for a walk to the Bleeker Street office to get the cutlass that goes with the costume. Even though it is after hours, Herman Henderson enters the office while Daphne is still looking for the cutlass. He wants to hire the Inquiry Agency to find out who is trying to kill him.
This book has everything: intrigue, revenge, romance, comedy, slap stick antics, and real-life issues and problems faced by the women of the late 1800s. It also has pictures of the mind of a writer, the struggles writers go through to put words onto paper, and the work that goes into making a plot work. It has to be one of the hardest things writers can do to put plot development into the plots they are crafting.
For a light-hearted read, this is one of the best books I've read in a rom-com genre. Jen Turano never disappoints. Five Stars, Two Thumbs Up, and a closed Inquiry Case.
Bethany House and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
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