Masked Ball, Missing Body
(2026)(The fourth book in the Seabrook Pavilion Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
Masked Ball, Missing Body is Book 4 in The Seabrook Pavilion Mysteries, so the description needs to sell three things fast: glam event hook, ‘no body’ twist, and the ongoing donor-system menace. Here’s a clean, clickable KDP description you can paste.
Masked Ball. Midnight music. And the guest of honor who vanishes before anyone can scream.
Costume mistress Mabs Dyer can stitch a torn hem in the dark and spot a liar by the way they handle a button. Unfortunately, none of that helps when The Seabrook Pavilion hosts a glittering masked ball and a wealthy London patron disappears between one waltz and the next… leaving behind a locked room, a smear of wax, and a single cryptic note.
With no body, the town insists it’s a scandal, not a crime. The Pavilion board wants the night erased. The donors want the gossip managed. And DS Theo Briggs is under pressure to keep the peace, not chase a mystery that makes powerful people look bad.
Mabs isn’t buying it.
Because someone used the donor corridors like a stage set, and the props they left behind are too precise to be coincidence. As rumors turn vicious and evidence starts ‘misplacing itself,’ Mabs must untangle jealous rivals, polished patrons, and a staff that’s terrified of saying the wrong name out loud.
Find the missing person, prove it’s more than a disappearance, and do it before the Pavilion decides Mabs is the easiest problem to remove.
A twisty, fast-paced 1920s cozy with glamour, secrets, and a sleuth who refuses to play her assigned role.
If you love locked-room riddles, backstage intrigue, and small-town power games with a sharp, witty heroine, you’ll devour Masked Ball, Missing Body.
Buy now and step behind the velvet rope.
Genre: Mystery
Masked Ball. Midnight music. And the guest of honor who vanishes before anyone can scream.
Costume mistress Mabs Dyer can stitch a torn hem in the dark and spot a liar by the way they handle a button. Unfortunately, none of that helps when The Seabrook Pavilion hosts a glittering masked ball and a wealthy London patron disappears between one waltz and the next… leaving behind a locked room, a smear of wax, and a single cryptic note.
With no body, the town insists it’s a scandal, not a crime. The Pavilion board wants the night erased. The donors want the gossip managed. And DS Theo Briggs is under pressure to keep the peace, not chase a mystery that makes powerful people look bad.
Mabs isn’t buying it.
Because someone used the donor corridors like a stage set, and the props they left behind are too precise to be coincidence. As rumors turn vicious and evidence starts ‘misplacing itself,’ Mabs must untangle jealous rivals, polished patrons, and a staff that’s terrified of saying the wrong name out loud.
Find the missing person, prove it’s more than a disappearance, and do it before the Pavilion decides Mabs is the easiest problem to remove.
A twisty, fast-paced 1920s cozy with glamour, secrets, and a sleuth who refuses to play her assigned role.
If you love locked-room riddles, backstage intrigue, and small-town power games with a sharp, witty heroine, you’ll devour Masked Ball, Missing Body.
Buy now and step behind the velvet rope.
Genre: Mystery
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