I'm currently reading A Poetic Pox by Samantha Larsen. This book is the third in the Lady Librarian Mystery series and was released last month.
Loathe to leave her family, especially during the holidays, Tiffany Lathrop nonetheless agrees to accompany her friend and employer, Catherine, the Duchess of Beaufort on an overnight trip to visit an old friend. The Marquess of Harwood requested Catherine visit with her young son as he had just returned after years abroad and was dying. Upon their arrival staff tried to barr their entry, but they were no match for a determined duchess! Tiffany is stunned to find the manor in disrepair, the valet dead, and the Marquess near death himself, both men seemingly poisoned. Though loving her role as a new mother, Tiffany is excited leave dirty nappies for a bit and solve another murder. Who wants to kill the Marquess? Does it have something to do with the smallpox epidemic that ravaged the town twenty years prior? Does a baseborn son believe he's entitled to an inheritance? With untrustworthy servants and a town filled with secrets Tiffany will have to rely on her wits and the support of her friends and their own staff to outsmart a villain!
Tiffany and the Duchess are such a great duo because Catherine just uses her title to bulldoze through obstacles that would stop anyone else. Finding the manor in ruins makes me think the staff were stripping the place bare while the Marquess was away. That twenty year old pox secret feels like the real key to why the whole town is acting so shifty. Do you think the baseborn son is actually looking for a connection to his father or is he just there for the money? Read more on my blog at https://www.melodyjacob.com/.
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