Death at the Altar
(2025)(The third book in the Mary Shelley Investigations series)
A novel by Donna Gowland
The Shelleys are back with a new murder case! For fans of Mary Shelley, Daphne Du Maurier, Diane Setterfield and Laura Purcell.
With Percy under suspicion, can Mary find the real murderer in time…?
1815, London
When her infant daughter dies, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is plunged into a deep depression.
And it doesn’t help that the father, and man who she loves, Percy Shelley, cannot commit to her as he already has an estranged wife.
When Mary receives an invitation to a wedding from a beloved school friend from her Dundee days, Percy thinks it would provide the perfect distraction.
But even away from London, they cannot escape people talking about their relationship.
And when the curate is shot dead at the end of the wedding, the locals turn on Percy.
Mary must find the true killer before their misguided suspicions become a witch hunt.
And as Mary has murder on the mind, her stepsister Claire sets her targets on someone else — Lord Byron…
DEATH AT THE ALTAR is the third book in the Mary Shelley Investigation series: thrilling Gothic murder mysteries with a tenacious literary heroine working as a female sleuth.
THE MARY SHELLEY INVESTIGATIONS SERIES:
Book One: The Missing Wife
Book Two: The Lost Girls
Book Three: Death at the Altar
Genre: Historical
With Percy under suspicion, can Mary find the real murderer in time…?
1815, London
When her infant daughter dies, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is plunged into a deep depression.
And it doesn’t help that the father, and man who she loves, Percy Shelley, cannot commit to her as he already has an estranged wife.
When Mary receives an invitation to a wedding from a beloved school friend from her Dundee days, Percy thinks it would provide the perfect distraction.
But even away from London, they cannot escape people talking about their relationship.
And when the curate is shot dead at the end of the wedding, the locals turn on Percy.
Mary must find the true killer before their misguided suspicions become a witch hunt.
And as Mary has murder on the mind, her stepsister Claire sets her targets on someone else — Lord Byron…
DEATH AT THE ALTAR is the third book in the Mary Shelley Investigation series: thrilling Gothic murder mysteries with a tenacious literary heroine working as a female sleuth.
THE MARY SHELLEY INVESTIGATIONS SERIES:
Book One: The Missing Wife
Book Two: The Lost Girls
Book Three: Death at the Altar
Genre: Historical
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