October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

A Pernicious Fabrication by Lynn Messina

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Also by Lynn Messina:

A Lark's Gambit, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
A Wretched Folly, March 2026
e-Book
A Highly Courageous Adventure, November 2025
e-Book
A Lark's Regret, July 2025
e-Book
A Pernicious Fabrication, March 2025
Paperback / e-Book
A Lark's Release, November 2024
Paperback / e-Book
A Vicious Machination, July 2024
e-Book
A Lark's Conceit, February 2024
Paperback / e-Book
A Murderous Tryst, November 2023
e-Book
Prejudice & Pride, December 2015
e-Book
Little Vampire Women, May 2010
Paperback
Savvy Girl, August 2008
Paperback
Never on a Sundae, October 2004
Trade Size

A PERNICIOUS FABRICATION
By: Lynn Messina

A Regency Cozy

Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries #13
Potatoworks Press
March 2025
On Sale: March 7, 2025
ISBN: 1965885020
EAN: 9781965885024
Kindle: B0DK4FR9T1
Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Historical | Mystery Amateur Sleuth

Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, will not do the bidding of Hell and Fury Hawes. It does not matter how difficult it is to find new murder mysteries to investigate, especially ones where the victim was stabbed with a chisel. She absolutely refuses to lift a finger to help him figure out who killed one of his associates.

Nothing will persuade her, not even discovering the identity of the victim.

It is the duke’s cousin, son of the wretched Lord Myles, who also met an ugly death—bludgeoned with a candlestick—after going into business with the infamous crime lord, who rules over the worst rookery in London. Mortimer Matlock, a thwarted artist who stopped sculpting after his work was rejected repeatedly by the Royal Academy, was forging artifacts for Hawes’s illegal antiquities scheme.

Joining forces with the King of Saffron Hill, it seems, is frequently fatal.

That is an unfortunate development, then, for Bea, whose husband is determined to find out who slayed his relative. The duke shares her distrust of Hawes, whose avowals of just wanting justice for the fallen man ring hollow to him too. He believes there is more to the situation than meets the eye.

Well, obviously, yes, thinks Bea, who is unable to smother her misgivings.

Surely, they’re walking into a trap.