#29 Where Serpents Sleep by C.S. Harris

This book feels like a pivot in the series. The book starts out with Hero barely surviving an attack on a Quaker house of former prostitutes. Hero is interviewing them for a paper she is writing when men break in to murder the women and set fire to the house. Hero and one of the women go out a window and start down the street but the woman with her is shot dead in the road. Jarvis is trying to cover up what happened so no one will find out that Hero was there and forbids her to go to the authorities. So she goes to Devlin to ask him to look into it. He dives into the case and there is so much more than first appears to be. A really great series that blends history into the storyline without feeling like you are reading a textbook.

#30 How To Marry A Werewolf by Gail Carriger

Another standalone novella in the Parasol Protectorate universe. Yes this can be read without having read the other books but it will give you a taste of universe and maybe get you reading more of them. Faith has been sent to London to live with distant cousins after she has been ruined in society’s eyes. The distant cousins she has been sent to don’t know what happened, but they have opened their arms and home to Faith and she starts to have a wonderful time among London society. From almost the first moment she stepped off the balloon in London she caught the eye of Major Channing of the London Pack. There is a mystery as well along with the romance that slowly blooms between them. This was a fun read but now I want more books set in America to see how things are different there.