Two families’ pasts unravel when the last person to see a missing girl alive is murdered and the victim’s crime-writing father becomes the prime suspect.“This suspenseful narrative will grip even the most discerning readers of thriller/suspense. There are elements of such engaging texts as Gone Girl and even Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and there’s a lot to like about this book. The author does a wonderful job with the slow burn, making me believe but simultaneously question most of the characters, and the revelations that unfold in the last act are truly surprising.” Kate B., Line Editor, Red Adept Editing "With its great storytelling and jaw-dropping revelations, this book is hard to put down. Readers who enjoy a tightly crafted mystery and well-written characters will appreciate this story. Highly recommended!" Kristina B., Proofreader, Red Adept EditingSecond wife Harper... Views: 51
Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure wants her resident sleuth-ghost, Jack, to stop haunting her customers. But when a pretty author is murdered, Jack can't rest in peace. Views: 51
The newest master of 67 Clarges Street--that good address in London’s fashionable Mayfair--is a single gentleman, the handsome, rich, and notorious rake Lord Guy Carlton. After years of fighting in the wars against Napoleon, the dashing lord is determined to kick up his heels with wine, women, and song, undeterred by appalled reaction. Never before have the Clarges Street servants earned so much money or eaten so well, but their pleasure-loving master seems liable to die of dissipation. In desperation, the staff, led by the witty and resourceful butler, Rainbird, sets out to find a “good woman” who can calm the lord’s boisterous spirit and save his black soul. Their search ends with the discovery of Miss Esther Jones of Berkely Square, a prim and righteous woman who seems the perfect reformer. But complications lie ahead as the servants’ ingenious scheme creates warmhearted chaos both above and below the stairs at 67 Clarges Street, and no one, not even Miss Jones herself, is prepared for the transformation that ultimately takes place.
### From Publishers Weekly
The fourth volume in Chesney's Regency romance series (A House for the Season pits the libertine renters of the seasonal house on Clarges Street against a beautiful but moralistic spinster in a nearby residence. Followers of the series are acquainted with the colorful retainers, led by the butler Rainbird, who constitute the below-stairs "family," and who cope with the antics of their ever-changing employers. This time, rich, womanizing Lord Guy Carlton and his buddy, bent on erasing memories of their experiences in the Napoleonic wars, throw wild parties in the house. The butler disapproves but sees an opportunity for "a good woman to reform a rake" by bringing together the dissipating lord and Miss Esther Jones, a prim beauty who keeps an open Bible on display in her forbidding parlor. Predictably, the reformer's role is reversed; Esther succumbs to the now erstwhile rake, as Chesney once again adroitly manipulates the floating upstairs population that keeps the downstairs on its toes. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
### From Library Journal
In this fourth volume of a series of six, "A House for the Season," all the elements for a good Regency finally come together. The house at 67 Clarges Street and its domestic staff serves as the linking entity of the series. Rainbird, the butler, heads a motley crew of servants. They have banded together as a family; their aim in life is to buy a pub and leave service behind. Into this menage comes Lord Guy Carlton, invalided home from the Napoleonic Wars. Lots of wine and women are the order of the day for this young buck of the ton. At 120 Berkeley Square resides Miss Esther Jones, repressed spinster of 26, with her young brother and sister. Rainbird et al. connive to bring together this unlikely pair. Add a mistaken identity for my lord's foreign valet and this is a witty, charming, touching bit of Regency froth. Highly recommended. Paula M. Zieselman, Sarah Lawrence Coll. Lib., Bronxville, Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 51
After he failed to find his missing sister, whose remains finally turned up in a bag in an overgrown field, Texas PI Truman Smith retired to become a housepainter on Galveston Island. But when an alligator is killed and its carcass left on display on a family friend's property, Tru is persuaded to search for the culprit. Views: 51
When a senator's daughter goes missing, it is a race against time as FBI Special Agent Nicky Lyons, 28, a fast-rising star in the BAU, is tasked with finding her—and with finding, per the senator's order, the top 10 abducted women most likely to still be alive. When young women disappear along the Florida coast, Nicky realizes they're being transported somewhere across the ocean. Where is their abductor bringing them—and why?Nicky Lyons, 28, a missing-persons specialist in in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, is an expert at tracking down abductees and bringing them home. The connection is personal: after Nicky's twin sister was abducted at 16, Nicky made stopping kidnappers her life's work. But when Nicky is assigned to a new task force in south Florida dedicated to finding the recently missing, she soon realizes she's up against a serial killer more diabolical than she imagined. Her only hope at finding these girls is entering his mind and outwitting him at... Views: 51
