Andrea Penrose is a USA Today, bestselling author of Regency era historical fiction, including the acclaimed Wrexford and Sloane mystery series.

Andrea is published internationally in ten languages. She's a three time Rita award finalist and is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including two Daphne du Maurier awards for Historical Mystery.

 Hi there. I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler and today on Binge Reading, Andrea talks about Murder At The Merton Library, # 7 in her best-selling Wrexford and Sloane series.

Responding to an urgent plea from a troubled family friend, the Earl of Wrexford journeys to Oxford, only to find the reclusive university librarian has been murdered and a rare manuscript has gone missing.

In the words of one reviewer, it's another of Andrea's “well-thought-out mysteries with early forensic science, great details of the era, and a slow burning attraction that creates a compulsive read.”

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Link to items mentioned in this episode

Sir John Soanes Regency townhouse:  https://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/sir-john-soanes-house-a-slice-of-regency-london/

The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51187948-the-splendid-and-the-vile?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_21

Allison Montclair, and the Bainbridge Sparks series

https://us.macmillan.com/author/allisonmontclair

C.S. Harris, the Sebastian St Cyr Regency mysteries

https://csharris.net/sebastian.php

Where to find Andrea Penrose online

Website: www.andreapenrose.com

Instagram:  @andreapenrosebooks

Word Wenches blog: https://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/

Introducing Andrea Penrose mystery author

Jenny Wheeler: But now here's Andrea. Hello there, Andrea, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.

Andrea Penrose - Regency mysteries

Andrea Penrose: Thank you so much for having me here. Jenny. I'm really excited to chat with you.

Jenny Wheeler: You're a best-selling author of the Wrexford and Sloane Regency Mystery Series and the next one, number seven, I think it's due to be published next week, isn't it?

Andrea Penrose: It actually in the U. S. came out last week.

Jenny Wheeler: Oh, great. Murder in the Merton Library, - for those who may not quite remember, the Merton Library is one of the most ancient and revered libraries in Britain, at Oxford University. So, you've got a great location to start, but you did start out writing romance, didn't you? How did you get called into doing the mysteries?

Andrea Penrose: I really liked writing romance, but a story really is about the relationship, how the 2 people fall in love, and I found myself more and more interested in developing a greater psychological depth with characters. The idea that a mystery usually will have a series and we'll have the protagonist, the same protagonist in each book.

You have a chance to develop the characters and plunge into the depths of friendship and vulnerabilities and how they tie in with their friends.

A mystery tests your sense of trust of who you're working with, who you can believe.

You question yourself about a lot of things. And I felt it gives me a bigger range to develop the characters and really have a little more complexity and the depth.

The story doesn't just revolve around a love st...