Review: Nothing Is What It Seems
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2010
An eccentric mystery with many eccentric characters.  People are in and out of costume.  There's young Nigel who makes life-like masks of peoples' faces.  There is Thomas who insists that Laura pretend to the Baron and his family that she is his (Thomas') wife.  Then there is Antonia who is married to the Baron but with her own eccentricities.  Ditto for the baron and the local vet.  Strange too, is the way Laura, our main character happens upon Torrington manor.Things are never what they seem and the plot is as convoluted as a maze of hedges.  How can Laura ever know whom she can trust?Takes place in England with some people speaking French.  It really is a delightful adventure/mystery--just right for a cool Halloween read.