Finally, Flora Hyde-Claire has wrest the narrative from Beatrice by finding her own compelling murder mystery to solve. Well, it’s not entirely her own because the victim is her cousin’s former beau. Bea insists, of course, that the law clerks’s death was merely an accident. Oh, but Flora knows that evasive look on her cousin’s face. Bea is hiding something and Flora is determined to discover the truth despite the danger it puts her in… Since the new Duchess of Kesgrave cannot be swayed from her unfortunate interest in dead bodies, Lady Abercrombie decides to confront the matter head-on by hosting a dumper mystery dinner party. But then, one of the guests is killed in the same manner as her ladyship’s civic, and the evening turns genuinely tragic. Despite suffering a few initial setbacks, the former Beatrice Hyde-Clare has settled into her new position nicely. But then she learns from a most unlikely source that Kesgrave’s malevolent uncle is scheming to destroy her happiness. Determinedly, she resolves to meet the threat head-on – until the villainous relations winds up bludgeoned to death with a candlestick.

Curl up with these lovely murder mysteries and cozy up the the delightfully clever Duchess of Kesgrave!