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 Americaβs wealthiest citizens. Itβs 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, Emmaβs job is to take note of the real players off the fieldβNewportβs well-bred elite. But the fashionable faΓ§ade is breached when a woman in gaudy clothing creates a scene demanding to speak to the wife of Senator George Wetmoreβuntil she is escorted off the grounds by the police.
The next morning, police detective Jesse Whyte asks Emma to meet him at the Wetmoresβ Bellevue Avenue home, Chateau sur Mer, where the senatorβs wife, Edith, has mysteriously asked to see her. Upon entering the mansion, Emma is confronted with a crime sceneβthe 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 prostituteβand pregnantβshe 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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