The Casebook of Barnaby Adair #7
Savdek Management
August 2018
On Sale: August 16, 2018
Featuring: Alaric, Lord Carradale; Constance Whittaker
226 pages ISBN: 1925559130 EAN: 9781925559132 Kindle: B07D6YH44P Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
#1 New York Times -bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of unexpected romance that blossoms against the backdrop of dastardly murder.
Well-born rakehell and head of an ancient family, Alaric, Lord Carradale, has finally acknowledged reality and is preparing to find a bride. But loyalty to his childhood friend, Percy Mandeville, necessitates attending Percyβs annual house party, held at neighboring Mandeville Hall. Yet despite deploying his legendary languid charm, by the second evening of the week-long event, Alaric is bored and restless.
Constance Whittaker accepts that no gentleman will ever offer for herβsheβs too old, too tall, too buxom, too headstrongβ¦too much in myriad ways. Now acting as her grandfatherβs agent, she arrives at Mandeville Hall to extricate her young cousin, Glynis, who unwisely accepted an invitation to the reputedly licentious house party.
But Glynis cannot be found.
A search is instituted. Venturing into the shrubbery, Constance discovers an outrageously handsome aristocrat crouched beside Glynisβs lifeless form. Unsurprisingly, Constance leaps to the obvious conclusion.
Luckily, once the gentleman explains that heβd only just arrived, commonsense reasserts itself. More, as matters unfold and she and Carradale have to battle to get Glynisβs death properly investigated, Constance discovers Alaric to be a worthy ally.
Yet even after Inspector Stokes of Scotland Yard arrives and takes charge of the case, along with his consultants, the Honorable Barnaby Adair and his wife, Penelope, the murdererβs identity remains shrouded in mystery, and learning why Glynis was killedβall in the few days before the house partyβs guests will insist on leavingβtests the resolve of all concerned. Flung into each otherβs company, fiercely independent though Constance is, unsusceptible though Alaric is, neither can deny the connection that grows between them.
Then Constance vanishes.
Can Alaric unearth the one fact that will point to the murderer before the villain rips from the world the lady Alaric now craves for his own?
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