Gilded Newport
Kensington
August 2017
On Sale: July 25, 2017
304 pages ISBN: 1496703324 EAN: 9781496703323 Kindle: B01M7W948P Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, is home to some of Americaโs wealthiest citizens. Itโs also the beat of society reporter Emma Cross, a less well-heeled cousin to the illustrious Vanderbilts, who occasionally moonlights in solving murders . . .
Covering a polo match for the Observer, Emmaโs job is to take note of the real players off the fieldโNewportโs well-bred elite. But the fashionable faรงade is breached when a woman in gaudy clothing creates a scene demanding to speak to the wife of Senator George Wetmoreโuntil she is escorted off the grounds by the police.
The next morning, police detective Jesse Whyte asks Emma to meet him at the Wetmoresโ Bellevue Avenue home, Chateau sur Mer, where the senatorโs wife, Edith, has mysteriously asked to see her. Upon entering the mansion, Emma is confronted with a crime sceneโthe intruder from the polo match lies dead at the foot of a grand staircase.
To avoid scandal, Edith Wetmore implores Emma to use her reporter skills and her discretion to investigate. When Emma learns the victim was a prostituteโand pregnantโshe wonders if the senator was being blackmailed. As Emma peels back layers of deception and family secrets, she may have met her match in a desperate killer who will trample anyone who gets in the way...
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