Teaser Tuesday 376: Sweet Revenge

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few "teaser" sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!


This week I am teasing from Sweet Revenge, a regency mystery by Andrea Penrose.

"What—"

Reacting at the same split second, Saybrook grabbed her and flung her to the floor, just as one of the glass panes exploded and a bullet whizzed overhead.


(Chapter 4)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Series: Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #1

England, 1813: Lady Arianna Hadley’s desire to discover her father’s murderer has her acting the part of a French chef in one of London’s aristocratic households. But when the Prince Regent is taken ill after consuming Arianna’s special chocolate dessert, she finds herself at the center of a dangerous scandal.

Because of his expertise in chocolate, Alessandro De Quincy, the Earl of Saybrook, is the ideal candidate to investigate this crime. When Saybrook’s intuition leads to Arianna’s exposure, she convinces him to keep her secret in exchange for her help in tracking down the real culprit.

As their search takes them from the glittering ballrooms of Mayfair to the slums of St. Giles, it becomes clear that someone is looking to plunge England into chaos—and Arianna and Saybrook to the bottom of the Thames . . . .

Includes chocolate recipes and trivia!