Willberg continues her Marion Lane series with this latest. There is something so wonderful about this world. Marion and Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries are so unique that you can't help but become consumed with the mysteries. "Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge" is now the third book I have read in the series and I couldn't love it more.

thank you to netgalley for the advanced reading copy of Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge. This was very interesting and enjoyable, will have to get a couple of copies for the bookshop

Another solid entry in this delightful series. I’ve been recommending Marion Lane books a lot this summer. Very pleased to see this series developing in such a captivating way.

T.A. Willberg brings us a second Marion Lane tale in Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge. In London, 1960, Marion Lane, an apprentice inquirer at Miss Brickett's Investigation and Inquiries, is busy proving herself for her official Inquirer's badge, when she and her friend Bill get ensnared in the affairs of Darcy. Darcy, supposedly a victim, is actually a mover in all the mayhem that falls on Darcy and the Inquirers. A fantastic view of London with an underground group of super detectives. Read this intriguing story.

This felt like more of a thriller and less of a mystery than previous series entries. And while the series always has a noir feel to it, this title was grittier, with less of the quirkiness I've enjoyed in earlier series entries. Definitely not the place for someone new to the series to start but readers who have read Marion's previous adventures will still want to read this. I'll still read any further series entries.

MARION LANE AND THE RAVEN'S REVENGE by T.A. Willberg is the third in the series of the magical, steampunk gadget wielding, secret detective!

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I have really enjoyed following Marion Lane on her journey into Mrs. Brickett's, and how she had grown from a new apprentice to an almost Investigator in this installment. This tale involves a very personal attack to Marion in ways that affect all that she loves most. As Marion puts together the pieces of a missing girl and tries to take care of this growing problem on her own, she discovers that she needs all the people around her in ways she never imagined.

I fell in love with this mystery series and all its classic late 50's early 60's vibe with more current sensibilities and amazing magical gadgets! This mashup delighted me and the mystery was a whodunit of a superb quality. I had so much fun with Marion! This has been a really clever mystery series.

Thank you so much to @parkrowbooks @harlequinbooks & @netgalley for letting me read this digital ARC and getting to share my thoughts! I am a bit late to share as this is out as of last week, but that means it is available now!

I was very excited to receive an ARC for 'Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge'! I have the first book in the series 'Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder', but have yet to read it. (My TBR feels like it is 800 books deep at the moment.) As I read 'Marion Lane and the Rave's Revenge', I was very pleased that I didn't seem to be missing much by not having read the two previous books in the series.

I think the author did a very good job at alluding to things that happened previously, but didn't make the current story rely upon them. I definitely think that one could read this as a standalone, but I think one might want to go ahead and read the first two books in the series. I know that I will be doing that straight away! (This is why my TBR is the way that it is.)

This was a pretty quick read. I started it on the plane to Santa Fe two days ago and have already finished it. (Only read in the evening.)

I love the idea behind this secret detective agency. I like the time period it is taking place, as well. This story felt fast paced to me and it was enjoyable to read. Marion is a loveable character who means we'll, but often gets herself (and others) into trouble.

If you are in the mood for a fun mystery, then I would definitely recommend this book (and series)!

Marion Lane has quickly become one of my favorite characters! I tore through the first two books earlier this month and was thrilled when NetGalley and Park Row allowed me to read the next one early. Set in the late 50s in England, this series transports you to a secret, underground world of the Inquirer's at Miss Bricketts. Marion and her apprentice friends have already solved some heinous crimes, and their caper against the Raven is equally enthralling. This book also finally got more into Marion's backstory, and told us more about her mother. I still love Willberg's writing style, and was so glad to learn more about these characters. I can't wait to see where they go next (to keep it spoiler free)!

I enjoyed this third installment in this historical mystery series that is part James Bond and part 1940 detective noir. I love the characters, and the gadgets and the stories, while perhaps a bit formulaic, have kept me on the edge of my seat and turning those pages.

Marion is once again finding herself in the middle of a mystery that not only involves the agency this time, but her best friend Bill. This mystery is also connected to Marion’s past and the reasons behind her mother’s death. We learn a lot more about Marion’s childhood and how that relates to her development into the person she is today. While I have seen some growth in Marion over the two books, I wish we could see her being a little bit less impulsive and feeling like she is the only one who can protect her friends and save the agency. She tends to make things worse instead of better even when things all work out in the end.

Even though it is Bill’s new romance that starts the whole mystery, there was not as much attention on Marion’s friends and her own romance as there was in the first two books. I would very much like to see more of her friends and learn more about their histories and how they ended up at Miss Brickett’s Investigations.

Even with Marion dashing off to save everyone at the drop of a disruptor, I still really enjoyed the story. It was very well plotted and the twists were well done. The pacing was also well done with some of the action happening at breakneck speed, and then have some down time to get ready for the next action part. I really liked the ending, although I am a bit worried that there may not be more books coming? It is left open enough that there is room for a continuing story, but I would be ok with it ending there as well.

If you enjoy the old detective stories from the 40’s and enjoy reading about quirky characters and fun gadgets you really must give this series a try. It is full of a lot of fun, fast paced mysteries with some unexpected twists and a female protagonist that will always be there to save the day.

When I first started reading Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge it felt it wasn't going to be any good. And it took a while to get into But before long I started enjoying it. It's the story of Marion and all of her cohorts as Inquirers aka secret police.

Marion's friend, Bill, was dating. Darcy Gibson. Darcy had done time in prison, and she went on to murder a thug named Oscar Biggar . Then she murdered his brother Alan and framed Marion and for both murders.

There's so much that transpired in the book. And I want to go on but I don't want to disclose the end. All in all, I gave this book four stars.

I really was really fond of the first book of this series, Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder, for the fantastic premise of a vast underground private spy agency Miss Brickett’s Investigations and Inquiries hidden below a neglected London bookstore, and its quirky characters. Marion, a new recruit, is a compelling protagonist, possessing almost genius mechanical talents, along with being kind, vulnerable, and carrying overstuffed emotional baggage packed full with a difficult childhood and adolescence. I liked the second book, Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose, for its further development of the backstory of the agency, wonderful spy gadgets, and its timely plot, touching on relevant topics, such as the danger of mob rule, disinformation, and political polarization, though the ending felt quite rushed in relation to the weight of the issues raised. Book 3, however, Marion Lane and the Raven’s Revenge, did not live up to the promise and premise of the other two, and instead of deepening our understanding of secondary characters, just shunted them to the side while choosing to focus on Marion’s repeating behavioral loop of charging into dangerous situations with rather astonishing naiveté, given the plots of the previous two books. It suffers from the lack of plot devices that go beyond trotting out some very cool spyware and storylines that too closely resemble each other (hint: Marion gets knocked around quite a bit, again and the once solid agency is in trouble, again, and only she can save her friends, again). This time the agency gets involved with the murder of a local philanthropist who has previously received a gruesome package of a dead raven; others have received them, including one shoved into one of the secretive letterboxes of Miss Brickett’s. And there is a weird connection with Marion’s past to this macabre message. The agency has also been invaded, err visited, by representatives of the equivalent German spy school. On the surface it is for a friendly exchange of ideas, though it seems to be a one-way exchange. There is also a high stakes fight club match of rival insect spyware: but perhaps there is something more sinister going on, as evidenced by the strange behavior of the visiting German inventor/spymaster. Oddly, there is no mention of any post war acrimony toward Germany, or even acknowledgement of the war, though this takes place only 15 years after the end of the WW2 .

Bill, Marion’s BFF, is in love, and at wit’s end to hide his true vocation from his very inquisitive girlfriend, who has some tall order secrets of her own. And can Marion really commit to her dreamboat American detective boyfriend and he to her and do we really care? Maybe not so much, at least unless he grows a pair of dimensions to his character. But there is another murder or two and yes, Scotland Yard is stumped, especially when Miss Brickett’s undercover establishment is in peril of going belly up. The big reveal comes early, with smaller reveals sprinkled throughout, but they don’t quite hang together. And the ending again felt very hurried, as though the mystery writer’s 5-minute warning bell went off. The gadgets are fantastic though, as is the book’s cover art. Unfortunately, I broke the rule and judged the book by its cover. I’m still rooting for Marion though; hopefully, the next book will live up to its captivating packaging.

I truly cannot put my finger on exactly what I like so much about the Marion Lane books but they just have something special that has me stalking NetGalley every time I hear that a new one is coming out. This one felt like a bit of a departure from the first two - while it was still set at Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries, a secret detective agency that's housed in a secret lair underneath a bookstore, a lot of the action, and the mystery itself, actually takes place aboveground. Marion's close friend and fellow apprentice detective Bill is dating a civilian, Darcy, who pulls both Bill and Marion into a mystery to figure out the identity of "the Raven," a shadowy figure from Marion's own past (and who she blames for her mother's death by suicide) who appears to be after Darcy because she was tangled up in the past with drug dealers and gangsters the Biggars Brothers. Many twists and turns and deceptions later, the mystery is solved but at great cost to Miss Brickett's. I was a bit worried that this was the last in the series, but the end does leave things a bit open for a possible continuation of the series, which I'm crossing my fingers for.

I really love this series!! Marion Lane is my absolute favorite historical mystery series! This latest mystery really helps us to understand more about Marion's past. I'm so excited for this one to come out and for the next one after that!

Raven's Revenge is a fun period piece with a likeable detective heroine. Thank you HarperCollins for the digital review copy.

I've read the other 2 books in this series and was excited for the next installment. This series should definitely be read in order. I've enjoyed the whole cast of characters in all 3 books and always felt like the collaboration and relationships between characters was really well written. So it was fun to get an update about everyone in book 3! However, this book mostly focused on the main character and her internal thoughts. It made sense considering the content of the book, but was less fun. It also felt like the author was trying to wrap up all the loose ends from the series and throw some light on mysteries from the past so it became a little unwieldy and implausible (although it is a series about an underground detective agency in London, so maybe plausibility is besides the point).

If you've read the first two books, it's definitely worth finding out what happens and getting some of the backstory filled in. I felt like the resolution was a little too tidy and Marion (the main character) was acting too much on her own, but I still enjoyed the book and definitely wanted to know what would happen.

Marion and her friends are about to become full fledged inquires, that is until Marion's former life comes back to haunt them all. Another fast paced and fascinating read in this always imaginative series.