How Does a Lady Behave in the Face of Murder?
A true lady's guide... by Dianne Freeman
Stick to etiquette or dig into your husband's mysterious death to learn the truth? Shed the rich aristocrat mask and decode intrigues of the cunning privileged class? "A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder" is an exceptional historical belles-lettres novel with romance, comedy and crime elements. Thanks to Skarpa Warszawska publishing house, Dianne Freeman's bestselling series book is available from 25 January!
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"A Lady's Guide" is set in Victorian England among London aristocracy layers. There you meet mysteries, understatements and intricately woven intrigues. The gripping plot comes with humour and sudden twists, and nobody expects the surprising ending…
A merry widow in action
Frances Wynn, American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than as a wife. After a mandatory year mourning her philanthropist husband Reggie, she shelves black wardrobe, leaving the countryside and greedy relatives behind. Frances moves with her daughter, rents a Belgravia house and prepares to host sister Lily arriving from New York for her first London salon season.
A new life chapter and the heroine's coveted freedom get disrupted by past affairs. Police receive an anonymous letter accusing Frances of her husband's death. The countess assures Inspector Delaney of her innocence, although she surprisingly informs the lawman plenty about Reggie's scandalous death circumstances, which she did not witness…
As it happens, my husband died just over a year ago… in his mistress's bed. During a party at the house. At our house. Charming man…
A philanthropist husband distributed his gifts to more than the poor. No wonder grief for her husband keeps the countess awake.
While Frances attends social meetings, worrying whether Reggie was really murdered, news arrives of mysterious burglaries haunting London high society. The investigation brings death to her doorstep, and Frances mobilises forces, gathering gossipers and the eternally chivalrous Mr Hazelton – the countess's neighbour – to uncover truth. Is the murderer hiding in society? Frances must unmask the villain before Lily's salon season, perhaps her and loved ones' lives, end...
About the author - after thirty corporate years, Dianne Freeman quit her life to become a writer. The "True Lady's Guide" series author won the Agatha Award, Lefty Award and was a finalist of the prestigious Mary Higgins Clark Award by Mystery Writers of America.