A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman

Agent: Melissa Edwards, Stonesong Agency. This historical is pure unadulterated fun. Freeman delivers it all: clever plotting, charming characters, plausible suspects, and red herrings galore. Her debut novel, A LADYS GUIDE TO ETIQUETTE AND MURDER, won both an Agatha Award and a Lefty Award, and was nominated for the prestigious Mary Higgins Clark Award from Mystery Writers of America. Frances and George investigate with aplomb. Dianne Freeman is the acclaimed author of the Countess of Harleigh Mystery series. Her accusations against George could lead to his and Frances’s ostracism from polite society and put a damper on their nuptials, and the situation becomes even more dire when Irena is murdered in Frances’s back garden.

The impetuous fantasist also claims to be the owner of a London theater, the victim of serial abductions, the recipient of menacing letters, and the daughter of a Russian grand duke. Her thoughts are disrupted by the arrival of a police inspector and Irena Teskey, an attractive young French woman who announces that she is Mrs. Agatha Award winner Freeman’s lively fourth Countess of Harleigh mystery (after 2020’s A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Murder) finds Frances Wynn, Countess of Harleigh, happy in November of 1899 as she contemplates her upcoming marriage to her next-door neighbor and occasional detecting partner, the Honorable George Hazelton. A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder Show full title By Dianne Freeman 3.5 / 5 ( 126 ratings ) About this ebook An American-born countess in Victorian London must navigate the social scene while solving her husband’s murder in this historical mystery.

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman