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Call the Shots
(2026)(The second book in the Golden Age Telephone Gossips Mystery series)
A Story by Isabella Bassett
No villainy can remain hidden when the village sleuths are armed with tea and telephones.
Other villages might have sewing circles, but in Thistle-Upon-Avon, Lady Ursula and her friends have formed one around the telephone. And while the purpose of the group is to gather information, it would be a mistake to assume that the members trade in idle gossip. These ladies are dedicated to weaving a web of telephone connections to catch villains.
So when the next victim in the village is shot while on the telephone, the irony is not lost on them.
Now, the race is on. Every call that crackles through Gladys’s telephone exchange brings the women closer to the killer. But this malefactor seems to move faster than gossip down a telephone line, outwitting the ladies at every turn.
Will a call for help reach them too late, allowing the killer to strike again? Or will the friends untangle alibis, expose lies, and prove—just in time—that nothing remains secret in an English village?
‘Call the Shots’ is Book 2 of the Telephone GossipsMysteries. Suspended in the golden hour between the two wars, the series evokes the charm and idyll of English village life in the late 1920s and early 1930s. But for all the rosy nostalgia, all is not as it seems. The glint of the silver tea service hides a flicker of envy in the eye. The melodic tinkling of fine bone china masks the rattle of a skeleton in the closet. And while the parlourmaid in her snow-white apron serves tea and the lace tablecloth flutters gently in the wind, social tension, ambition, secrets, and murder bubble just beneath the pristine surface.
Note to my dear readers: The Lady Caroline Mysteries continue. I am working on the next one.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Other villages might have sewing circles, but in Thistle-Upon-Avon, Lady Ursula and her friends have formed one around the telephone. And while the purpose of the group is to gather information, it would be a mistake to assume that the members trade in idle gossip. These ladies are dedicated to weaving a web of telephone connections to catch villains.
So when the next victim in the village is shot while on the telephone, the irony is not lost on them.
Now, the race is on. Every call that crackles through Gladys’s telephone exchange brings the women closer to the killer. But this malefactor seems to move faster than gossip down a telephone line, outwitting the ladies at every turn.
Will a call for help reach them too late, allowing the killer to strike again? Or will the friends untangle alibis, expose lies, and prove—just in time—that nothing remains secret in an English village?
‘Call the Shots’ is Book 2 of the Telephone GossipsMysteries. Suspended in the golden hour between the two wars, the series evokes the charm and idyll of English village life in the late 1920s and early 1930s. But for all the rosy nostalgia, all is not as it seems. The glint of the silver tea service hides a flicker of envy in the eye. The melodic tinkling of fine bone china masks the rattle of a skeleton in the closet. And while the parlourmaid in her snow-white apron serves tea and the lace tablecloth flutters gently in the wind, social tension, ambition, secrets, and murder bubble just beneath the pristine surface.
Note to my dear readers: The Lady Caroline Mysteries continue. I am working on the next one.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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