London Calling
(2027)(The third book in the Golden Age Telephone Gossips Mystery series)
A novel by Isabella Bassett
London calling. And it's not good news. It's a warning about murder.
It feels as though London has descended upon Thistle-Upon-Avon. Newspaper men swarm around the archaeological dig, eager to report its discoveries, while Lady Upton’s raffish son, Richard, has returned to stir up trouble of his own. But when a body turns up, it becomes clear that the newcomers have brought more than urbane sophistication to this sleepy village. They’ve brought murder."London Calling’ is Book 3 of the Telephone Gossips Mysteries. 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.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
It feels as though London has descended upon Thistle-Upon-Avon. Newspaper men swarm around the archaeological dig, eager to report its discoveries, while Lady Upton’s raffish son, Richard, has returned to stir up trouble of his own. But when a body turns up, it becomes clear that the newcomers have brought more than urbane sophistication to this sleepy village. They’ve brought murder."London Calling’ is Book 3 of the Telephone Gossips Mysteries. 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.
Genre: Cozy Mystery