Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1739-9
Set in April 1920, Maxwell’s winning fourth Lady and Lady’s Maid mystery (after 2017’s A Devious Death) takes Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her maid, Eva Huntford, to Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, for the marriage of Lady Phoebe’s older sister, Julia, to...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3619-2
Maxwell’s satisfying 11th historical whodunit featuring Emma Cross (after 2022’s Murder at Beacon Rock) sees the reporter once again investigating murder in turn-of-the-century New England. Emma and her new husband, Derrick Andrews, own and operate...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (282p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3491-4
Set in 1921, Maxwell’s engrossing eighth Lady and Lady’s Maid mystery (after 2021’s A Deadly Endowment) takes plucky Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her intrepid lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, to the Cotswolds, where Phoebe’s sister, Julia, the Marchioness of...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3617-8
At the start of Maxwell’s clever Gilded Newport mystery (after 2021’s Murder at Wakehurst), intrepid reporter Emma Cross and her fiancé, Derrick Andrews, arrive one summer day in 1900 for dinner at yachtsman Edwin Morgan’s Beacon Rock estate. While...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3490-7
Agatha Christie meets Downton Abbey in Maxwell’s pleasantly diverting seventh Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery (after 2021’s A Sinister Service). After the depredations of WWI, Lady Phoebe Renshaw’s grandfather, the Earl of Wroxly, is badly in need of...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2074-0
In Maxwell’s lively ninth Gilded Newport mystery (after 2020’s Murder at Kingscote), journalist Emma Cross, a cousin “twice or thrice removed” from Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who has recently died, attends an Elizabethan-themed fete at Wakehurst, the...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1745-0
Set in 1920, Maxwell’s enjoyable sixth a Lady and a Lady’s Maid mystery (after 2020’s A Silent Stabbing) takes Lady Phoebe Renshaw, her three siblings, and her maid, Eva Huntford, to Staffordshire, the hub of England’s thriving porcelain trade....
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2073-3
Set in 1899, Maxwell’s excellent eighth Gilded Age Newport mystery (after 2019’s Murder at Crossways) finds newspaper editor-in-chief Emma Cross and her beau, Derrick Andrews, at a high-society motorcar competition, where they see 21-year-old Philip
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1742-9
Early in Maxwell’s appealing fifth a Lady and a Lady’s Maid mystery set in post-WWI England (after 2019’s A Murderous Marriage), maid Eva Huntford and her employer, Lady Phoebe Renshaw, are disturbed to hear that a brash American, Horace Walker,...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2072-6
The discovery of a stabbing victim on a beach propels Maxwell’s tightly plotted seventh Gilded Newport mystery (after 2018’s Murder at Ochre Court). Journalist Emma Cross, now editor-in-chief of the Newport Messenger, thinks it’s her half-brother,...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9082-3
Set in Newport, R.I., in 1895, Maxwell’s pleasant series debut introduces 21-year-old Emmaline Cross, a poor member of the wealthy Vanderbilt clan. She earns her own living, drives her own carriage, and helps rescue her half-brother, “Brady” Gale,...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0336-1
Maxwell’s diffuse sixth Gilded Newport mystery (after 2017’s Murder at Chateau sur Mer) takes reporter Emma Cross back to Newport, R.I., after a year in New York, where she unsuccessfully tried to break out of society reporting into hard news. Her...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61773-838-8
Maxwell’s well-crafted third Lady and Lady’s Maid mystery featuring Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her maid, Eva Huntford (after 2016’s A Pinch of Poison), shows how class lines were blurred in post-WWI Britain. In August 1919, 20-year-old Phoebe and her...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0332-3
Set in 1897, Maxwell’s middling fifth Gilded Newport mystery (after 2016’s Murder at Rough Point) finds reporter Emma Cross, who writes the weekly Fancies and Fashions page for the Newport, R.I., Observer, at a polo match. In the stands, she sees...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61773-834-0
Maxwell’s middling second Lady and Lady’s Maid mystery (after 2015’s Murder Most Malicious) centers on Lady Phoebe Renshaw’s alma mater, the Haverleigh School for Young Ladies, in the Cotswolds. In the spring of 1919, 20-year-old Phoebe organizes a...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0328-6
Set in the fall of 1896, Maxwell’s pleasantly twisty fifth Gilded Newport mystery (after 2015’s Murder at Beechwood) finds Emmaline Cross, journalist for the Newport, R.I., Observer and distant relative of American gilded age royalty, with an...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $25 (298p) ISBN 978-1-61773-830-2
Set in England, Maxwell’s entertaining first in her Lady and Lady’s Maid series opens with an argument between Lady Phoebe Renshaw and Henry Leighton, Marquess of Allerton, on Dec. 25, 1918, at Foxwood Hall. The next day, Leighton goes missing, and...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9086-1
A baby left on the doorstep of Gull Manor propels Maxwell’s absorbing third Gilded Newport mystery (after 2014’s Murder at Marble House). In 1896 upper-class Newport, R.I., sleuthing has to be done very carefully, but Emma Cross’s position as a...
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Alyssa Maxwell. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9084-7
Emma Cross, a shirttail relative of the Vanderbilts, finds herself at the center of a potential scandal in this solid follow-up to Maxwell’s Murder at the Breakers. When Emma’s beautiful 18-year-old cousin, Consuelo Vanderbilt, disappears...
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