Since this series is set in England, don't be at all surprised if there's the merest whiff of a spirit (and I'm not talking single malt). Even a reader like me who has an aversion to millinery can enjoy the information McKinlay shares about hats, their design and creation. Other characters, such as Fee the shop assistant, Wentworth, Vivian, Ferd the Bird, and her new friends Nick and Andre round out a cast that has a lot of potential. She also doesn't wait to give dishy Harrison Wentworth a piece of her mind whenever he infuriates her (which is often). Scarlett doesn't wait for Vivian's return or for someone else's invitation before she's out exploring Portobello Road and making new friends. Show More of humor that kept me laughing out loud. Looking forward to the next book, Death Of A Mad Hatter, to see if Scarlett is for real on no men for 6 months. With someone breaking into the shop and someone attemping to suffocate Scarlett starts her own investigation, with the help of Harrison and Andre and his partner.Ī wonderful story and I particularly got a kick out of Scarlett and Harrison trying to top the other. With no one knowing for sure where Viv is, she immediately becomes a person of interest. It is soon learned that Viv had been romantically involved with Lord Ellis while they were at university and evidently Lord Ellis was still infatuated with Viv. Scarlett enters her room and finds Lady Ellis wearing only the hat she had given her. When they arrive for the photo op, they learn that Lady Ellis is dead. She engages Andre, a photographer down the street to take the picture at Lady Ellis' home. To make for the confusion, Scarlett offers to have Lady Ellis' picture taken wearing the hat and post it on the shop's website. Scarlett has a hard time finding the hat and finally finds which she thinks is the one. There is bantering between them and Scarlett is not so sure that Harrison is not somehow involved.Ī couple days later, just as Scarlett is starting to learn about the shop from Fee, an apprentice, Lady Ellis arrives to pick up a hat Viv was making for her. But then it is not unheard of for Viv to disappear for a few days. After an embarrassing breakup with what she thought was her soul-mate, Scarlett agrees to head to England and work in their little shop.īut when Scarlett arrives, Viv is not there to meet her and a gentleman, Harrison Wentworth, who the business manager for the shop, is and informs her that Viv is missing. Scarlett Parker and her cousin Vivian Tremont are joint owners of a millinery shop given to them on the death of their grandmother.
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