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Picnics, Peers, and Poison
(2024)(The first book in the Lady Persephone Victorian Mystery series)
A novel by R B Marshall
An assassin, an aristocrat, and an artist in peril
It's 1893 and aspiring photographer, Persi (never call her by her full title, Lady Persephone Millicent Merrit) is vacationing at an idyllic spot on the Scottish coast, when she stumbles across a body—almost literally.
When a tenacious police inspector discovers that the dead man had been arguing with Persi's new friend, famous designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the hapless artist is suspected of a revenge killing.
With her trusty box camera, her faint-hearted companion Adelia, and a parasol full of pluck and perspicacity, can Persi uncover the truth before Charles is accused of murder and clapped in irons?
:: Tumbledown towers, picturesque picnics, and engaging eccentrics pepper this USA Today bestselling mystery that mixes real history with fiction to dramatic effect. Book one in the historical series, the Lady Persephone Victorian Cozy Mysteries, the twists and turns in Picnics, Peers, and Poison will keep fans of Benedict Brown, T.E. Kinsey, or Karen Baugh Menuhin turning the pages all night long!
Genre: Cozy Mystery
It's 1893 and aspiring photographer, Persi (never call her by her full title, Lady Persephone Millicent Merrit) is vacationing at an idyllic spot on the Scottish coast, when she stumbles across a body—almost literally.
When a tenacious police inspector discovers that the dead man had been arguing with Persi's new friend, famous designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the hapless artist is suspected of a revenge killing.
With her trusty box camera, her faint-hearted companion Adelia, and a parasol full of pluck and perspicacity, can Persi uncover the truth before Charles is accused of murder and clapped in irons?
:: Tumbledown towers, picturesque picnics, and engaging eccentrics pepper this USA Today bestselling mystery that mixes real history with fiction to dramatic effect. Book one in the historical series, the Lady Persephone Victorian Cozy Mysteries, the twists and turns in Picnics, Peers, and Poison will keep fans of Benedict Brown, T.E. Kinsey, or Karen Baugh Menuhin turning the pages all night long!
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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