A Gossip is Ghosted
(2027)(The sixth book in the Duchess of Stortford Mystery series)
A novel by Helen Golden
A little gossip never killed anyone. Until now.
Alice, Duchess of Stortford, is looking forward to a few civilised days at Pellum Hall: good food, friends, magnificent surroundings and, if she is lucky, absolutely no dead bodies.
Then Lady Lavinia Bellasis is found murdered in the library.
Warm, witty and incurably interested in everyone else’s affairs, Lavinia has spent the weekend doing what she does best—gossiping. She’s teased one guest about a secret romance, noticed another behaving strangely over money, caught two gentlemen skulking around Lord Pellum’s valuable art collection and dropped an innocent remark that leaves one guest distinctly rattled.
By Saturday morning, she’s dead.
The police favour a simple explanation: an intruder entered through the open French doors and killed Vinnie when she interrupted him.
Alice isn’t so sure. Especially when she discovers that the letter Vinnie was writing shortly before her death has disappeared.
With more than one house guest determined to keep their private affairs private, Alice must discover which secret Vinnie uncovered—and which of them was desperate enough to silence her.
But in a house where everyone is hiding something, the most dangerous secret may be the one Vinnie never knew.
A witty Victorian country-house mystery packed with society gossip, hidden scandals, suspicious house guests, a missing letter, red herrings'''and one very determined duchess.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Alice, Duchess of Stortford, is looking forward to a few civilised days at Pellum Hall: good food, friends, magnificent surroundings and, if she is lucky, absolutely no dead bodies.
Then Lady Lavinia Bellasis is found murdered in the library.
Warm, witty and incurably interested in everyone else’s affairs, Lavinia has spent the weekend doing what she does best—gossiping. She’s teased one guest about a secret romance, noticed another behaving strangely over money, caught two gentlemen skulking around Lord Pellum’s valuable art collection and dropped an innocent remark that leaves one guest distinctly rattled.
By Saturday morning, she’s dead.
The police favour a simple explanation: an intruder entered through the open French doors and killed Vinnie when she interrupted him.
Alice isn’t so sure. Especially when she discovers that the letter Vinnie was writing shortly before her death has disappeared.
With more than one house guest determined to keep their private affairs private, Alice must discover which secret Vinnie uncovered—and which of them was desperate enough to silence her.
But in a house where everyone is hiding something, the most dangerous secret may be the one Vinnie never knew.
A witty Victorian country-house mystery packed with society gossip, hidden scandals, suspicious house guests, a missing letter, red herrings'''and one very determined duchess.
Genre: Cozy Mystery