A Lark's Tale: A Regency Cozy

About A Lark's Tale: A Regency Cozy

Verity Lark knows everything. As the London Daily Gazette’s popular gossip columnist, she is extremely adept at sneaking into houses, assuming disguises and overseeing a vast network of spies to ensure she stays abreast of the beau monde’s comings and goings. If it sometimes seems as though she was hiding behind the settee during a particularly fierce quarrel between a husband and his wife, it’s most likely because she was hiding behind the settee during their fierce quarrel.

But nobody knows her. Writing under a pen name, Verity safeguards her anonymity via an elaborately constructed alter ego. Seemingly everywhere, Mr.

Twaddle-Thum is in fact nowhere. He has never met with an informant or skulked in a dark alley. He simply does not exist.

That is why she is so startled to discover he has recently been spotted at a variety of locations. A Twaddle-Sham is knocking about London and in such a ham-handed manner he is inciting people to murder. At least that’s what Verity thinks is happening when she stumbles across a plot to kill him.

Or her. Who is the real target? Well, see, that’s just the problem because Verity can’t actually say.