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A Lark's Gambit, August 2026
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A Wretched Folly, March 2026
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A Highly Courageous Adventure, November 2025
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A Lark's Regret, July 2025
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A Pernicious Fabrication, March 2025
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A Lark's Release, November 2024
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A Vicious Machination, July 2024
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A Lark's Conceit, February 2024
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A Murderous Tryst, November 2023
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Prejudice & Pride, December 2015
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Little Vampire Women, May 2010
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Savvy Girl, August 2008
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Never on a Sundae, October 2004
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A LARK'S REGRET
By: Lynn Messina

A Regency Cozy

Verity Lark Mysteries #5
Potatoworks Press
July 2025
On Sale: July 11, 2025
Featuring: Mrs. Flimmer-Flam
Kindle: B09ZRM7M32
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Hobbies | Mystery Historical

If there is one thing Verity Lark finds more unsettling than having to give a shooting lesson to the woman whom she has ridiculed in print for months, it is having to give the lesson on the very same morning her alter ego Mr. Twaddle-Thum publishes an apology for erroneously reporting a key detail of one of her favorite subject’s early murder investigations.

The mortifying mistake is made intolerable by the fact that it was uncovered by a rival gossip for another newspaper. Identifying herself as Mrs. Flimmer-Flam, she vows to correct a whole host of other misapprehensions about the Duchess of Kesgrave, whom she calls the murder duchess for obvious reasons.

Oh, but, no, her reasons are not obvious at all, for this new scandal merchant believes the public has been greatly misled in regard to her grace’s talents. She is not just solving murders; she is also committing them.

It is preposterous nonsense—and that is to say nothing of her portrayal of Twaddle as a credulous dupe gulled into mythologizing a killer—and Verity vows to discover who is spreading the virulent lies, a task that grows immeasurably harder after she finds the gossip’s throat slashed.

Someone is willing to kill to hide the truth, and Verity has no idea who might be next.

Welcome to the fifth installment of the Verity Lark Mysteries, where secrets run deep and every move could be her last.