A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder (eBook)

Dianne Freeman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
320 Seiten
Kensington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4967-3166-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The ';dazzling' (Publishers Weekly) and ';highly entertaining' (Kirkus Reviews) series by award-winning author Dianne Freeman continues with another engaging romp through Victorian high society, as the American-born Countess of Harleigh investigates murder among the aristocracy. An entertaining read for fans of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and of the Gilded Age. For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner has she sent her mother and daughter off on a shopping trip to Paris than she and her fiance, George Hazelton, are socializing with visiting members of the Russian royal family. Amid this whirlwind, scandal also comes calling when Inspector Delaney turns up outside Frances's house with a young French woman with a shocking claim: she is Mrs. George Hazelton. As the future Mrs. George Hazelton, Frances assumes the woman is either lying or demented. ';Mrs. Hazelton,' aka Irena, makes other outrageous statements. Among them, she insists that she is the illegitimate daughter of Russian royalty, that she has been abducted many times, and that someone is sending her threatening letters. When George arrives, he clarifies that he is certainly not married to Irenathough he can confirm her royal parentage. But even as he agrees to investigate whether Irena's life is in danger, her claim proves tragically true. Irena is found strangled in Frances's garden. To uncover a killerand clear their own namesFrances and George must determine which of Irena's outlandish stories were based in fact. And as the search reaches a shocking conclusion, they may find that villainy lurks all too close to home . . .';Freeman delivers it all: clever plotting, charming characters, plausible suspects, and red herrings galore. This historical is pure unadulterated fun.' Publishers Weekly

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2021
• Reihe/Serie: A Countess of Harleigh Mystery
• Reihe/Serie: A Countess of Harleigh Mystery
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Alyssa Maxwell • amateur sleuth • british aristocracy • British historical mystery • cozy historical mystery • Edith Wharton • English elite • english high society • female amateur sleuth • female sleuth historical mystery • historical murder mystery • lighthearted mystery • Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries • nineteenth-century historical mystery • rhys bowen • Russian royal family • Tasha Alexander • Victorian mystery
• ISBN-10: 1-4967-3166-2 / 1496731662
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4967-3166-1 / 9781496731661