Today I'd like to shine a spotlight on a book in my massive TBR pile. A Sinister Service by Alyssa Maxwell is the sixth book in the Lady and Lady's Maid Mystery series. It was released last month.
Blurb:
A trip to Staffordshire for Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s
maid, Eva Huntford, leads to murder in a famed pottery works . . .
Following the devastation of the Great War, England's noble class takes
comfort in honoring tradition. To celebrate their grandparents' wedding
anniversary, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her siblings travel to
Staffordshire to commission a china service bearing the Wroxly coat of
arms from the venerated Crown Lily Potteries, a favorite of Queen Mary.
The two leading designers at the illustrious china manufacturer offer
competing patterns. But when one of them is found dead—his body crushed
in a grinding pan and his design pattern book missing—his rival is
immediately suspected. The police are also suspicious of the dead
designer's resentful young son, a schoolmate of Phoebe's
fifteen-year-old brother Fox. When Fox gets involved to help his friend,
Phoebe begins to investigate the rival artist.
At the same
time, Eva is enlisted to go undercover at the works so she can gain the
confidence of the female employees, who are only allowed to paint, not
design, which may have led to a grudge against the victim. Pursuing a
killer who has no compunction about using a kiln as a coffin, Phoebe and
Eva take their lives into their hands to discover the shattering truth .
. .
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