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First in a new series that has the perfect mix of Regency murder and mystery.
A Lady Fan Mystery #1
Berkley
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Featuring: Otilla Draycott; Lord Francis Fanshawe
368 pages
ISBN: 0425242897
EAN: 9780425242896
Kindle: B0052RHFG8
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When the marchioness is found murdered at Polbrook mansion, the Dowager Lady Polbrook's new companion, Ottilia Draycott, finds herself in a house of strangers and every one of them a suspect. Only she can unmask and outwit a desperate killer and keep a Polbrook family secret buried. Never underestimate the resolve of a ladyβs companion. Sheβs a woman of incomparable cunning, insatiable curiosity, and as unfailingly attentive to her duties, as she is to the intricacies of murder inβ¦ The Gilded Shroud Pity the chambermaid who found the bodyβsprawled across a disheveled four-poster bed with a bruised neck revealing a grim truth: poor Emily, wife of the Marquis of Polbrook, had been strangled in the night. The last thing Emilyβs brother-in-law, Lord Francis Fanshawe, expects to find so soon after the crime is an adept investigator already settled comfortably in the Polbrook mansion. She is Ottilia Draycott, the Dowager Lady Polbrookβs new young companion, intelligent, resourceful, observant, and the familyβs hope in establishing the innocence of the Marquis, despite a motive: he wished Emily gone. But as Ottilia pieces together a picture of Emilyβs death, complications arise: the Marquis has gone missing, along with the theft of a priceless heirloom. Now Ottilia has found herself in a house of strangers and every one of them a suspect. And only she can unmask and outwit a killer too desperate not to replay the murderous events of that fateful night to keep a family secret buried.
Lady Fan THE GILDED SHROUD
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