I read this one by accident - I had just finished Raybourn's first Veronica Speedwell book and meant to read the second, scrolled down through my books and saw the this book by her and the cover art looked about right, so I started reading it. I was a little confused why the characters from the Speedwell weren't anywhere until I'd read a few dozen pages and clued in to the fact that I was reading a book in a different series by the same author. I was impressed with how well I was able to pick up the story with so many characters without reading the first book

I really dug the Lady Julia character and the setting, but I haven't read many mysteries and didn't super dig the mystery part of the book.

I'll definitely go back and read at least the first book in the Lady Julia series, even though I wasn't super into this book, I enjoyed it and I'm betting one of the other books in this series will be more my jam.