THE LAVENDER SEMAPHORE By Tracy Cooper-Posey

I'm loving these short and intense adventures Adele is taking me on. Each story uncovers new facets of her life as a spy and how they impact her lifestyle and sense of self.

Tension and intrigue kept me gripped in the story, and swept along for the adventure, as Adele proved yet again how brave and fearless she is in her mission to help Britain uncover German spies.

I'm looking forward to getting to know more about Adele and her fellow spy companions in the next installment of the series.

I appreciate the brief recap at the start of the book but also recommend that you start at book one of the series to fully enjoy getting to know Adele's evolution as a spy and the building characterisations of each additional personality working with Adele.

This is book four in a series of novellas. Adelaide Beckett is the main character, and by now you know she is brave and tenacious, along with charming and polite. This time she falls into a bit of a mystery, and dives right in as she always does to try figure it out. How happy I was to see Slane was in this story. This is a very enjoyable series of short stories, each one building on the last. I cannot wait for the next installment.

The Lavender Semaphore begins with Charlie Rowbottom sitting against Lady Becket's door, clutching a mysterious piece of paper that he had filched from a milk bottle. One thing leads to another and the next thing you know, somebody's trying to kill Adele! Fortunately, she escapes by her sheer wits and makes her way to tell Melville, Slane, and Daniel what she has learned. As usual, Lady Becket's penchant for following her hunches has gotten her into trouble. However, as an unintended consequence, Adele's double life approaches potential ruin, as an old friend becomes suspicious at her out-of-character behavior and voices aloud some old rumors about Adele's deceased husband and his alleged activities, something that she had never heard or even suspected. In fact, what her friend tells her is enough to make Adele's blood run cold and question whether or old life in Cape Town was a good and true as she had always believed... or if everything was a lie.

Start at the beginning of Adele's adventures so you can see her evolution from a naive, insecure widow to a blossoming assertive and intuitive spy-in-the-making. Cooper-Posey is a master storyteller so you won't be sorry to take an armchair ride into the world of Adelaide Becket.

In case you don’t have a dictionary in front of you: Semaphore: Noun, A system of sending messages by holding the arms or two flags or poles in certain positions according to an alphabetic code.

This author always makes me think. I figured I’d better get the official definition to truly understand and appreciate the context.

Kindness to a homeless waif, murder & mayhem, a mysterious cipher and secrets from the past surround Adele in this exciting historical suspense espionage novelette.

Adele Becket is one of the best kept secrets this country had, so when an old friend from South Africa came to visit, she didn't seem too put out until Charlie arrived one morning wanting to trade more than she expected for his breakfast.
Her friend being German meant lady Adele had to make excuses & tell a few excuses about what she was doing at nights.
She was obviously just getting used to being back in the game, being a woman of strong character & her own mind. Ready to win what ever was about to begin again, possibly?
Don't you just love this lady? Strong mind & well grounded. I can't wait for her next experience.
All in all it was a great follow up to the last book & I can't wait for number 5 as I know there will be.

This is the fourth installment in the Adelaide Becket series. This one reveals a very interesting twist in the plot and I can't wait to know more. Tracy's books never ceases to surprise me ans I looove it! I'm very excited about this series, currently it's sometimes hard for me to concentrate so this little novellas have been giving me life. I adore Adele, she seems like a very strong and independent character and I love it, besides the character's development has been terrific and the story arc really interesting. What's the best part? You can always rely on Tracy to finish her series, and that's dupe, so you just sit down, relax and enjoy the reading ;).