paranormal, ghosts, cosy-mystery, situational-humor, historical-novel, historical-research, historical-setting, detective, friendship, England, class-consciousness, theft, thievery, poisons, murder, murder-investigation, law-enforcement, verbal-humor, 1920s, amateur-sleuth*****

Addie is a widow whose husband was brave in the Great War but became a real bounder and died in a motor accident. Now he returns as a ghost and reluctantly works to keep Addie safe so he can move on. Meanwhile he is driving her nutz. Especially as she is finding the local police detective entirely too interesting. This time most of the goings on are in London where she is expected to chaperone her younger sister who only wants to go about to all of the clubs that cater to the younger set. And then there are a series of poisonings. All the while there is a bit of major robberies being pulled off by a gang of young women. The characters are all a bit wacky and the story moves along quickly. Loved it as much as the first in series!
I found the audio on sale and as it is narrated by Gemma Dawson, I chose audio.
Dreamscape Media/Poison Pen Press/Sourcebooks ( )

Not bad. Froth. ( )

1925 and Lady Adelaide Compton and her sister Lady Cecilia have returned to London from a trip to New York. Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter of Scotland Yard finds himself with Sergeant Wells in the middle of a murder investigation.
Lady Adelaidde and Hunter meet up again when another murder is attempted. She persuades Hunter to let her investigate the suspects of her social set.
A delightful, well-written, light-hearted cozy mystery where Lady Adelaide is helped by her ghostly husband Rupert.
A NetGalley Book ( )

At first the narrative was down right boring, but as soon as the dialog & action began, the book improved.

Lady Adelaide (Addie) & her deceased (now ghost) husband, Reggie, investigate the poisonings of a group of nightclubbing young friends as well as the actions of a member of the Forty Dollies (a gang of dolled up young women thieves)

The book held my interest & next I'm on to the 3rd in the series. ( )

Who's Sorry Now? is the second entertaining, lighthearted mystery in the Lady Adelaide series by Maggie Robinson. As with the first, Nobody's Sweetheart Now, we find Lady Addie being haunted by her late rakish husband, Rupert. His mission is to protect her when she stumbles onto a murder, which she does with an alarming regularity. This time it's the death of several young people at a London nightclub. When the murderer's attempts almost takes the life of Addie's sister, Cee, Lady Adelaide decides to throw caution to the wind and help the police, headed by Inspector Hunter, find the culprit.

First, I've got to say I adore this series. The characters are well written and are always lots of fun. The era that the author has chosen for the setting is perfect. The roaring 20's is not common among the mystery genre, so it works to set this series apart from others. The mystery story line in this one was unique and kept me guessing right to the very end.

The only downside I found in the book was the number of characters. There were quite a lot and at times it was difficult to keep them sorted. The author did have the main character review the them a few times in a list, so this did help somewhat.

Overall, it was a great book and I look forward to reading the next to see how Addie and Dev's relationship pans out. I received an advanced copy of this book given to me by the publisher, Poisoned Pen Press, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ( )