Penny for Your Secrets (Verity Kent, #3)

Penny for Your SecretsPenny for Your Secrets
by Anna Lee Huber
Rating: ★★★½
isbn: 1496713192
Series: Verity Kent #3
Publication Date: October 29, 2019
Pages: 326
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: Kensington

Each time after reading the first two books, I told myself I wasn’t going to read the next one, because I really dislike the way she setup the characters.  To explain more would be a plot spoiler for book 1, sorry.  But yet, I keep on picking up the next book and reading it.

Characters’ lives aside, Anna Lee Huber writes a good mystery.  The plots are generally intricate and mostly avoid the trite or well-worn paths of the genre.  This one was no different, except that it’s setting up a multi book arc with a nemesis, and I’m pretty wishy-washy about nemeses.  I also got a little bit tired of the constant references to Verity’s spy career during the war.  I suspect this is a Kensington editorial thing as it’s the type of over-reference I find a lot in their books, making me wonder if they underestimate their readers’ abilities to reading comprehension.

Generally an enjoyable read, but once again, I find myself thinking I might not buy the next one, though of course, I probably will anyway.

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