Murder in Season
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Join Countess turned advice columnist Amelia Amesbury as she tries to juggle a new Season and a new murder in this charmingly deadly historical mystery.
"A beautiful debutante, a wealthy widow, and a dead would-be baron. What could be more exciting?"
Countess by day, secret advice columnist by night, Amelia Amesbury has life happily balanced on a quill's edge . . . until her sister Margaret shows up in London under a blanket of scandal and Amelia is catapulted out of mourning and into the ton's unforgiving Season.
However Madge's Season debut is marred by a rather inconvenient death at the dining table as the infamous Mr Radcliffe takes ill and is later confirmed dead by poisoning. With Madge being the last person to have cross words with the soon-to-be baron, the ton's gossip mill - and the police - are looking to pin the murder on her.
Adding to the ton's troubles is a jewellery thief targeting the most lavish of Society's houses. Are the murderer and the thief one and the same? It falls to Amelia once again to uncover the secrets buried deep within the pages before her sister goes down for the crimes.
Perfect for fans of witty historical mystery and Regency romances with a similar feel to Verity Bright and T.E. Kinsey
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Countess Amelia Amesbury returns in the limp third Lady of Letters mystery from Winters (after Murder in Masquerade). In 1860 London, Amelia writes advice columns under the alias Lady Agony Her younger sister, Margaret, travels to London for a visit after she sends Charles Atkinson, one of her costars in a play, to the hospital for making unwelcome advances. Margaret arrives in the middle of London's debutante season and exchanges tense words with baronet Arthur Radcliffe, an acquaintance of Charles's, just before a society dinner. When Arthur dies by poisoning at the same event, Margaret becomes the obvious suspect. Then jewelry belonging to London's upper crust begins to go missing, bringing her twice as much scrutiny. Using her gifts of deduction, Amelia sets out to solve the crimes and clear her sister's name. Unfortunately, Winters fails to make Amelia's supposed talents convincing, sharing only banal excerpts from her columns and barely touching on her detective work. Readers intrigued by the premise will have better luck with Anastasia Hastings's Dear Miss Hermione series.
