A wallflower's guide to viscounts and vice / Manda Collins.

By:

Collins, Manda [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781538769188
1538769182

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

813/.6 23/eng/20241007

LOC classification:

PS3603.O45445 W35 2025

Summary: "A wallflower by choice, wealthy Lucy Penhallow would rather sit out the dancing all season than listen to false flattery from the fortune hunters who pursue her. But when she and her best friend's brother witness a crime in progress, they'll need to put every skill Lucy's learned from reading detective stories to the test in their hunt for a missing woman. And if Viscount Gilford happens to be handsome as sin and clever to boot? Well, that's no hardship for her. Viscount Gilford needs a wife to save him from financial ruin, and there's only one heiress who's off limits. So when he and Lucy find themselves inextricably linked in the tabloids, it's a disaster. As their investigation progresses, their once unwelcome alliance becomes something more--a love match neither will give up. But there's a killer watching their romance from the wings who's only too happy to keep these meddlesome sleuths together ... in the afterlife."--Page 4 of cover.

List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Fiction Fiction notes: Click to open in new window

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC COLLINS	Available	pap. ed		36748002627836

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A sunshine spinster and a grumpy viscount use their fake engagement to solve a murder mystery in the first book of a new series from Manda Collins.

A wallflower by choice, wealthy Lucy Penhallow would rather sit out the dancing all season than listen to false flattery from the fortune hunters who pursue her. But when she and her best friend's brother witness a crime in progress, they'll need to put every skill Lucy's learned from reading detective stories to the test in their hunt for a missing woman. And if Viscount Gilford happens to be handsome as sin and clever to boot? Well, that's no hardship for her.

Viscount Gilford needs a wife to save him from financial ruin, and there's only one heiress who's off limits. So when he and Lucy find themselves inextricably linked in the tabloids, it's a disaster. As their investigation progresses, their once unwelcome alliance becomes something more--a love match neither will give up. But there's a killer watching their romance from the wings who's only too happy to keep these meddlesome sleuths together . . . in the afterlife.

Includes a readers guide with discussion questions.

"A wallflower by choice, wealthy Lucy Penhallow would rather sit out the dancing all season than listen to false flattery from the fortune hunters who pursue her. But when she and her best friend's brother witness a crime in progress, they'll need to put every skill Lucy's learned from reading detective stories to the test in their hunt for a missing woman. And if Viscount Gilford happens to be handsome as sin and clever to boot? Well, that's no hardship for her. Viscount Gilford needs a wife to save him from financial ruin, and there's only one heiress who's off limits. So when he and Lucy find themselves inextricably linked in the tabloids, it's a disaster. As their investigation progresses, their once unwelcome alliance becomes something more--a love match neither will give up. But there's a killer watching their romance from the wings who's only too happy to keep these meddlesome sleuths together ... in the afterlife."--Page 4 of cover.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

A fiercely independent spinster joins forces with a viscount in the diverting first Wallflower's Guide Victorian romance from Collins (the Ladies Most Scandalous series). Fabulously wealthy Lucy Penhallow and her best friend's brother, Will, Viscount Gilford, witness the abduction of Lucy's American friend Vera Blackwood from a ball. Determined to rescue her, Lucy and Will team up to investigate. But Will also has a secondary motive for spending time with Lucy: he needs to marry a wealthy woman to save his family from financial ruin. As the two follow a string of clues into grave danger, Will falls for Lucy, impressed by her resilience--especially after they witness a murder. To reach their happy ending, however, Will must protect Lucy from becoming the killer's next victim. The suspense simmers nicely alongside the gradually developing romance. This immersive, twisty caper gets the series off to a strong start. Agent: Holly Root, Root Literary (Apr.)

Booklist Review

Given the ruinous state of his family's finances, William, Viscount Gilford, must bid adieu to Paris and return home to London to assume his duties as the new head of Gilford House. The first thing on Will's to-do list is to find an heiress to wed. Lucy Penhallow, a dear friend of his sister Meg, would by all accounts fit the bill, except that she has absolutely no appetite for marriage. However, when Will and Lucy witness the abduction of Lucy's friend Vera Blackwood at a ball, the two not only find themselves united in searching for Vera but also swept up in real feelings for each other neither of them expected to have. Collins (A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril, 2024) launches a new Victorian-set spinoff from her Ladies Most Scandalous series that is bound to win favor with readers who delight in a deft blend of deliciously charming romance, devilishly dry humor, and a definite measure of dangerous intrigue.