A Very Private Enterprise

'A Very Private Enterprise' is a good mystery/adventure novel (not just my cup of tea) by Elizabeth Ironside [Pseudonym of Lady Catherine Manning, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S.] It is set in India and is very well written. This is a very nice Felony and Mayhem paperback edition.

A Very Private Enterprise is the third book I've read from Elizabeth Ironsides. All that I have read are sophisticated and well written, frequently with an international twist. One of my great recent finds. I've passed her books on to several friends with rave reviews from all. Try it!

This is the third book I have read by Elizabeth Ironside - she knows how to spin a tale! I have a partiality toward british mystery writers - she was not a disappoinment.

I liked this best, of the three Ironsides I have now read. For one thing, I like her masterful handling of the fact that the reader knew from chapter one who the murderer was; yet this reader still had to finsh the story! I came away from it acknowledging that both lovers have important secrets, now, from each other, and this does not sound like the ideal foundation for a relatiosnhip--that, and the fact that they are so vastly different from one another! I get the impression, three books on now, that Ironside herself is rather cynical, or at least jaded, about lasting love.

I found it a bit tedious in the beginning but enjoyed the plot in mid to end of the story.