The Stanhope Inheritance
(2022)(The first book in the Annabel Staple Mystery series)
A novel by Maggie Peck
‘I have always thought that a little uncertainty in life adds spice.’Alec Stanhope
It is London, 1965 and Annabel Staple has allowed her life to stand still. But when she inherits an estate in Hertfordshire from her father, Alec Stanhope, who she thought had died in WWII, she is pitched into a life that is anything but dull.
A missing fortune, art thefts, forged cheques and murder all suggest that her father’s death might not have been the ‘accident’ everyone thought it to be.
With nothing but a locket containing a photograph of her mother to go on, Annabel must unravel the mystery of her father’s death before she too falls victim.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
It is London, 1965 and Annabel Staple has allowed her life to stand still. But when she inherits an estate in Hertfordshire from her father, Alec Stanhope, who she thought had died in WWII, she is pitched into a life that is anything but dull.
A missing fortune, art thefts, forged cheques and murder all suggest that her father’s death might not have been the ‘accident’ everyone thought it to be.
With nothing but a locket containing a photograph of her mother to go on, Annabel must unravel the mystery of her father’s death before she too falls victim.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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