The truth is rarely simple.London 1884. Victorian industrialist Alexander Glenville is a man with many secrets. Fleet Street reporter Penny Green is tasked with working undercover as a maid in his home, but tragedy strikes when Glenville’s daughter is poisoned.Penny’s insider knowledge is crucial for Scotland Yard’s murder investigation, but someone in the Glenville household already suspects … household already suspects that she’s more than just a servant. Can Penny and Inspector James Blakely solve the mystery before Penny’s cover is blown?
What readers say about Penny Green:
★★★★★ “A Victorian Delight!”
★★★★★ “Good clean mystery in an enjoyable historical setting”
★★★★★ “If you are unfamiliar with the Penny Green Series, acquaint yourselves immediately!”
★★★★★ “Interesting, complex, believable characters”
★★★★★ “I found myself enthralled by Penny Green”
★★★★★ “An outstanding female lead character”
★★★★★ “I was engrossed from beginning to end”
★★★★★ “If you like Agatha Christie books you are going to like this one”
★★★★★ “I have found Ms. Organ’s story telling to be flawlessly entertaining!”
★★★★★ “Very strong mystery set in a very interesting time and place”
★★★★★ “Ms. Organ draws you into Penny’s world with her delicious descriptions and masterful story telling”
★★★★★ “I am very pleased with how this series is becoming one of my favorites!”
★★★★★ “Read the books in this series…. guarantee you won’t be disappointed!”
★★★★★ “A great read with a real twist at the end. Emily just gets better and better with this series.”
The Maid’s Secret is Book 3 in the Penny Green Mystery Series set in 1880s London. The books can be read in any order:
Book 1 – Limelight
Book 2 – The Rookery
Book 3 – The Maid’s Secret
Book 4 – The Inventor
Book 5 – Curse of the Poppy
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Love Penny Green! I really like Organ continues to develop her characters revealing more about with each new book in the series. She stays true to the historical period and builds a good mystery. I look forward to reading more in the Penny Green series and I hope that somehow, some way that James and Penny can get together!!
Enjoy good English mysteries,especially with a female doing some sluething.
I have have enjoyed all I have read in this series.
Another terrific Penny Green adventure from Emily Organ
My we have many more
I really enjoyed this book, good read.
An entertaining book for bedtime reading.
Engaging and original
A charming, light read, with just enough mystery and romance. I’ll be reading more of Penny’s adventures.
This is a terrific series. Well written, keeps you engaged with trying to figure out the mystery but also seeing what happens to Penny and James. Author Makes the time period come alive, and the female characters are smart and aware politically, so you get to see the changes in their social milieu as they were evolving. Highly recommend for readers who want neither fluff nor gore and violence, but intelligent female leads. Penny is a marvelously human narrator, you will love her and want her to triumph every time!
I enjoyed this mystery. It is well written, Easy to read with interesting characters. I would read the other books in this series.
I enjoy Victorian mysteries, and this book did not disappoint. The level of writing was better than many of the mysteries I have read. I am enjoying the entire series of Penny Green mysteries.
The story was good and the ending was nothing I would have expected. I’ll read more of this author.
I’d give this a 4.5. Well written historical mystery. Reminds me of M. Louisa Locke’s San Francisco Victorian mysteries. Roughly the same time period but in London. Locke goes into more depth about the culture, but still enjoyable. Compelling story; Appealing characters; Frustrated romance; all with a surprise ending. I look forward to the next in the series.
If you have a rainy afternoon or perhaps can’t sleep, this is a good book to read. It a bit light on romance and the plot could be thicker. I was disappointed with how the ending came about but I have to remember the setting is before women could run about doing things on their own.
The book is a good mystery, but the character development was a bit lacking. Dislike endings that are not really endings.
I love the Penny Green character. Think journalist, women’s rights, and then put it in the 19th century. The detective who encourages Penny’s curiosity and trusts her judgement is drawn to her, but is he engaged to someone else? Penny is a smart woman who can find and write a story, but has to fight sexism before sexism was really acknowledged. She lives in an upstairs room of some kind of boarding house and has to light her own heating stove to keep the room above freezing. And there’s a cat that visits her from the roof. I can’t wait for Book 4.
this is Emily Organ’s third in the Penny Green mystery series, and she just gets better with each installment. Another tight cozy with compelling characters. Read it! Read them all!
Plenty of twists and turns. You really think you have it worked out (the mystery) but by the end, you realize you don’t.
A good solid mystery story with no gory details to worry about. The story line seemed a bit overboard to me, but then I had to consider the time frame being dealt with in the story. It was well researched I think. Overall a good read. *S*
I liked this series by Emily Organ. They were different and original – very easy to read. Maybe a little predictable, but not too much. Historical Fiction