Murder in matrimony / Mary Winters.

By:

Winters, Mary [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Winters, Mary. Lady of letters mystery ; 04.Publisher: Edinburgh [Scotland] : Severn House, 2025Edition: First world editionDescription: 247 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781448315499
1448315492

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DDC classification:

823.92 23

Summary: "Countess Amelia Amesbury has her work cut out. As well as balancing her alter ego--secret advice columnist, Lady Agony--and the blackmailer threatening to reveal her real identity, her sister has also announced she's getting married. It's joyous news, but places all the planning for a high society wedding firmly at Amelia's door. Luckily, her good friend and local vicar Mr. Cross has agreed to the expedited nuptials, so that's one less thing to worry about. Until Cross is found dead at the church. Now in between bridal arrangements, Amelia must follow the clues Mr. Cross left behind. Clearly, he'd made some enemies during his parishioner work, as strange mishaps begin to occur wherever Amelia goes. But when the danger becomes all too real, Amelia must rely on her friends and the handsome Simon Bainbridge to help solve the murder, save the wedding, and Amelia's life too . . ."-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC WINTERS	Available		36748002633354

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Countess-turned-advice columnist Amelia Amesbury has a wedding to plan alongside a new murder in this charmingly deadly historical mystery.

Countess Amelia Amesbury has her work cut out. As well as balancing her alter ego--secret advice columnist, Lady Agony--and the blackmailer threatening to reveal her real identity, her sister has also announced she's getting married. It's joyous news, but places all the planning for a high society wedding firmly at Amelia's door.

Luckily, her good friend and local vicar Mr. Cross has agreed to the expedited nuptials, so that's one less thing to worry about. Until Cross is found dead at the church. Now in between bridal arrangements, Amelia must follow the clues Mr. Cross left behind.

Clearly, he'd made some enemies during his parishioner work, as strange mishaps begin to occur wherever Amelia goes. But when the danger becomes all too real, Amelia must rely on her friends and the handsome Simon Bainbridge to help solve the murder, save the wedding, and Amelia's life too . . .

Perfect for fans of witty historical mystery and Regency romances with a similar feel to Verity Bright and T.E. Kinsey.

"Countess Amelia Amesbury has her work cut out. As well as balancing her alter ego--secret advice columnist, Lady Agony--and the blackmailer threatening to reveal her real identity, her sister has also announced she's getting married. It's joyous news, but places all the planning for a high society wedding firmly at Amelia's door. Luckily, her good friend and local vicar Mr. Cross has agreed to the expedited nuptials, so that's one less thing to worry about. Until Cross is found dead at the church. Now in between bridal arrangements, Amelia must follow the clues Mr. Cross left behind. Clearly, he'd made some enemies during his parishioner work, as strange mishaps begin to occur wherever Amelia goes. But when the danger becomes all too real, Amelia must rely on her friends and the handsome Simon Bainbridge to help solve the murder, save the wedding, and Amelia's life too . . ."-- Provided by publisher.

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Kirkus Book Review

Which is harder for an agony aunt: planning a wedding or solving a murder? Though she's helping to raise her late husband's niece, Lady Winifred, and placating his difficult aunt, Lady Tabitha, Lady Amelia Amesbury still has time to solve crimes and write a newspaper column under the nom de plume Lady Agony. When Amelia's troublesome sister, Madge, announces her engagement to Capt. Fitz, it falls to Amelia to plan a wedding that will take place in less than a month. Her first visit to the Rev. Mr. Cross, a champion of the poor, quickly involves her and Lord Simon Bainbridge, her romantic interest and partner in crime-solving, in a complicated series of mishaps. On top of all this, she receives threatening letters from a reader demanding that she reveal the identity of the so-called Mayfair Marauder, who stole and then returned jewels for a reason Amelia's determined to keep hidden. When Cross is murdered, the police write it off as the work of a thief after the collection box, but before his death, Cross had left Amelia a mysterious clipping about a girl who fell to her death in a biscuit factory. Cross' church is in a wealthy area, but he also tried to do good in the East End, where his efforts weren't always appreciated. The wedding plans continue apace as the family arrives, but they're seriously upended by Madge's sudden indecision about whether she wants to marry after all. Investigating the deaths of Cross and the girl who died in the biscuit factory draws the sleuths into dangerous territory. Plenty of period details enrich a story of love, hate, and ambition. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.