Jen Turano truly outdoes herself this time.  Her third book in The Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, To Disguise the Truth, is witty, hilarious, and moving.  The author must just be rolling on the floor in laughter while she writes.  This is by far some of the funniest writing in inspirational romance today.

The story takes place in the late 1880s.  Reading about the unusual women of The Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency is a pure delight.  While their behavior might not be so shocking today, it is easy to imagine how their unconventional ways would have flown in the face of tradition.  Jen Turano really gives voice to the upset this might have caused.

Reading this book brings joy and sorrow, romance enough to melt any stoic’s heart and an endless supply of twists and turns in the plot.  Mystery lovers will never have laughed so much while trying to solve the intrigues. 

Review of an Advanced Reader Copy

Content Analysis:

Profanity/Language: None

Violence/Gore:  Many references to a murder, no graphic details; multiple references to a person being shot; a woman is slapped for not obeying someone; a woman fights off many attackers with her fists and surrounding objects; multiple scenes where a gun is pulled and used to threaten characters; characters verbally threaten to shoot others; report of a character hiring as assassin.

Sex/Nudity: A character asks another if she was intimate with her spouse; a married man is “keeping time” with the maid; a character allows others to believe she was having sexual relations with someone to whom she was not married.

Mature Subjects:  

Murder, death of parent, deceit, abuse of the vulnerable

Drug/Alcohol Use:   

None