Kate Shackleton #1
St. Martin's Press
February 2012
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Featuring: Kate Shackleton
370 pages ISBN: 0312622392 EAN: 9780312622398 Kindle: B005XMMNQY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
“Well-plotted and atmospheric… Kate Shackleton joins
Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs.” --Literary Review Take
one quiet Yorkshire villageBridgestead is a peaceful spot: a
babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its
heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens…Add a
measure of mysteryUntil the day that Master of the Mill
Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances,
never to be heard of again.A sprinkling of scandalNow
Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last
attempt at finding her father. Has he run off with his
mistress, or was he murdered for his mounting coffers?And
Kate Shackleton—amateur sleuth extraordinaire!Kate
Shackleton has always loved solving puzzles. So who better
to get to the bottom of Joshua's mysterious disappearance?
But as Kate taps into the lives of the Bridgestead
dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed…