First of all, I love this series so maybe I'm a bit biased. I like that Lady Emily isn't the "normal" romantic character, nor is she really the "normal" mystery solver either. Perhaps she's too real to be either. She's a woman who has faced some major obstacles and yet manages to keep going forward.

Dangerous to Know finds Lady Emily and her lovely husband Colin find themselves at his mother's home in France for Emily to recuperate after being shot, and loosing a baby. Emily is finding it hard to come to grips with her loss, asking herself if loosing the baby was really her fault because she had felt so indifferent towards having a child. I have to say I could relate somewhat to this. I never had children, partly because I've never married and partly because I was indifferent. I can see how she would begin to torture herself about what happened, especially in a time when women's whole world was supposed to be about having children. A great deal of the book is about how Emily is coping, or not as the case may be, about this situation. Throw in a MIL that doesn't really like this new wife her son has brought home, finding a dead body of a girl who apparently looks surprisingly like Emily and some very odd neighbors, and there is much to keep up with.

I love that Sabastian is back. I hope that he'll become a larger part of future books. His wit, and way of appearing out of the blue, are a great addition. I do wonder who he will work with Colin as he obviously cares for Emily. Should be interesting to see those relationships play out.

All in all, this was another solid installment in the Lady Emily series.