Today I'd like to shine a spotlight on a book on my vast TBR pile. Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd is the first book in the Miss Morton Mystery series. It was released May 31, 2022.
Blurb:
The options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few
indeed in Regency England. So, following the suspicious death of her
father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much
younger sister have been left without income or home, Lady Caroline
takes a post as a lady’s companion to the wealthy widow Frogerton.
Just as Caroline is getting accustomed to her new position, her aunt,
Lady Eleanor Greenwood, invites her and her employer to a house party in
the countryside to celebrate her youngest daughter’s birthday. Mrs.
Matilda (Matty) Frogerton sees this as an opportunity to introduce her
own rather wild daughter, Dorothy, to the ton, and Caroline is eager to see her sister, who as a child lives with their aunt.
But all is not well at the Greenwood estate. For one thing, Lady
Caroline’s former fiancé, Lord Francis Chatham, is a guest and refuses
to speak to her. Far worse, after a series of troubling harassments of
the staff, an elderly family member is found stabbed by a knitting
needle.
As Caroline and an unexpected ally—Mrs.
Frogerton—attempt to solve the chilling crime, they discover the culprit
may be leaving bizarre clues as to who will be next in the nursery. But
they must make haste, for this heartless killer is engaged in anything
but child’s play . . .
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