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John Pickett mysteries #4
Five Star
September 2015
On Sale: September 16, 2015
230 pages ISBN: 1432830961 EAN: 9781432830960 Kindle: B015ESSHZC Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Historical
When Julia, Lady Fieldhurst, returns from her sojourn in
Scotland restless and
out of sorts, her friend Emily, Lady Dunnington, decides
what Julia needs is a
lover. Lady Dunnington plans a dinner party with carefully
selected male guests
from whom Julia may choose a paramour. Emily also invites a
potential lover for
herself: Sir Reginald Montague, a man whose urbane manner
and dangerous good
looks hide a host of unsavory secrets. Alas, Emily’s little dinner is a disaster
from the outset. Every gentleman at the table bears some
unspoken grudge against
Sir Reginald, and then dinner is interrupted by Emily’s
estranged husband. He
and Emily have a heated discussion that ends with Lord
Dunnington’s vowing to
put a stop to his wife’s pursuit of Sir Reginald “no matter
what it takes.” But
the coup de grâce comes at the end of the evening, when Sir
Reginald is shot
dead. Bow Street Runner John Pickett is summoned to Emily’s house,
where he is
taken aback to find Julia. For in addition to investigating
the case, he is
faced with the awkward task of informing her that their
masquerade as a married
couple in Scotland has resulted in their being legally wed.
Beset by
distractions—not least the humiliating annulment process and
the flattering
attentions of Lady Dunnington’s pretty young housemaid—
Pickett must find the
killer of a man whom everyone has reason to want dead.
John Pickett
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