Category:
Mysteries
Regular worth:
$4.99
Deal worth:
$1.99
Deal begins:
November 25, 2022
Deal ends:
November 25, 2022
For followers of HBO’s The Gilded Age, discover the darkish aspect of the alluring world of America’s nineteenth century elite on this gripping sequence of riveting mysteries…
For followers of Rhys Bowen comes the brand new thriller from acclaimed writer Alyssa Maxwell, as she takes readers to the flip of the century mansions of famed Newport, Rhode Island . . . the place not all is all the time golden and homicide turns a profitable reporter right into a part-time beginner investigator . . .
Following the dying of her uncle, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in September 1899, a somber Emma is in no temper for one among Newport’s extravagant events. But to maintain Vanderbilt’s reckless son Neily out of hassle, she agrees to accompany him to an Elizabethan fête on the lavish grounds of Wakehurst, the Ochre Point “cottage” modeled after an English palace, owned by Anglophile James Van Alen.
The festivities embrace a swordplay demonstration, an archery competitors, scenes from Shakespeare’s performs, and even a joust. As Emma wanders the grounds, she overhears a fierce argument between a person and a lady behind a tall hedge. As the joust begins, she’s drawn by the barking of Van Alen’s canines and finds a person on the bottom, an arrow by means of his chest. The sufferer is likely one of the 400’s most influential members, Judge Clayton Schuyler. With the assistance of her beau Derrick Andrews and Detective Jesse Whyte, Emma begins to be taught the choose was not the straight arrow he gave the impression to be. As their investigation leads them in ever-widening circles, Emma should cease the killer from taking one other life . . .
“Lifestyles of the wealthy combine with social commentary in a mystery set against the backdrop of Newport’s grand estates.” —Kirkus Reviews
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