Tessa Arlen. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05249-0
Set in 1912, Arlen’s lively if flawed debut centers on the murder of Teddy Mallory, found hanging from a gameskeeper’s gibbet on the grounds of Iyntwood, Lord Montfort’s country estate, the day after the annual summer ball. Teddy was Lord Montfort’s
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Tessa Arlen. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05250-6
Near the start of Arlen’s enjoyable second Edwardian mystery (after 2015’s Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman), Clementine Talbot, the Countess of Montfort, attends a birthday party at the London mansion of Hermione Kingsley, the patroness of England’
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Tessa Arlen. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-10142-6
Arlen recreates a richly detailed pre-WWI England, seamlessly weaving historical events and people into her well-written third Lady Montfort mystery (after 2016’s Death Sits Down to Dinner). Beryl Armitage, a cook who was dismissed for accidentally...
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Tessa Arlen. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-10144-0
In Arlen’s satisfying fourth mystery set in early-20th-century England (after 2017’s A Death by Any Other Name), Clementine Talbot, the Countess of Montfort, embarks on a controversial new venture in 1916—a hospital at her family’s Haversham Hall...
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Tessa Arlen. Berkley Prime Crime, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0580-5
Poppy Redfern, the narrator of this unremarkable series launch from Arlen (the Lady Montfort books) set in WWII England, leaves London, where she has trained as an air raid warden, for the town where she grew up, Little Buffenden, to serve as its...
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Tessa Arlen. Berkley Prime Crime, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0582-9
Set in 1942, Arlen’s enticing second Poppy Redfern Mystery (after 2019’s Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders) finds Poppy working as scriptwriter for London’s Crown Film Unit, a production company responsible for creating propaganda films. Poppy’s
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Tessa Arlen. Berkley, $17 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-10248-0
Arlen (the Lady Montfort Mystery Series) delivers an engrossing story of Scottish governess Marion Crawford, who served the English royal family for 16 years. In 1931, the Duchess of York hires Marion to teach five-year-old Princess Elizabeth....
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