“Clever and entertaining, you’ll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!” – Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleA poltergeist guilty of murder?Ginger Gold receives a letter from her sister-in-law, Felicia, requesting Ginger come straightaway to her late husband’s family home, Bray Manor. Dowager Lady Gold, Ginger’s nervous grandmother through marriage, believes the … family home, Bray Manor. Dowager Lady Gold, Ginger’s nervous grandmother through marriage, believes the old manor is haunted.
Ginger doesn’t believe in ghosts, but is haunted nevertheless by memories of her husband and the lure of his gravesite she just can’t bring herself to visit.
In order to keep Bray Manor afloat financially, Felicia and Ambrosia have opened the estate to the public for club meetings and special events. Knitters, stamp collectors and gardeners converge weekly~targets for the poltergeist that seems to find amusement in hiding small things from their owners.
Bray Manor hosts a dance to raise money for maimed soldiers who struggle with peacetime after the Great War. Felicia invites her flapper friends and her new beau, Captain Smithwick, a man Ginger has met before and definitely doesn’t like.
When the dance ends with the discovery of a body, Ambrosia is certain the poltergeist is to blame, but Ginger is quite sure the murderer is made of flesh and blood.
Researching for the Ginger Gold Mysteries has been so much fun. I hope you sense that as you read. The fashions, the dances, the CRIME. Ginger Gold is smart, savvy, and delightful. The character of Haley Higgins, a medical student at the London Medical School for Women allows me to further delve into another keen interest of mine: forensics. Never fear, the Ginger Gold Mysteries are COZY, so no scary, graphic on-stage violence. You’ll find these books to be clean reads, with no swearing or sex. I hope you enjoy the Ginger Gold Mystery series!
Hop aboard the 1920s!
THE GINGER GOLD MYSTERY SERIES
Murder on the SS Rosa (Book 1)
Murder at Hartigan House (Book 2)
Murder at Bray Manor (Book 3)
Murder at Feathers & Flair (Book 4)
Murder at the Mortuary (Book 5)
Murder at Kensington Gardens (Book 6)
Murder at st. George’s Church (Book 7)
The Wedding of Ginger & Basil (Book 7.5)
Murder Aboard the Flying Scotsman (Book 8)
Murder at the Boat Club (Book 9)
Murder on Eaton Square (Book 10)
Murder by Plum Pudding (Book 11)
Murder on Fleet Street (Book 12) COMING JANUARY 2020
~more on the way!
Don’t miss LADY GOLD INVESTIGATES, the short story companion series!
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Love the characters. Can’t wait to read the next book.
Yet another great episode in the historical cozy mystery series, Ginger Gold Mystery series. I love the characters and how they interact with each other. The mystery is full of great and interesting suspects, subtle clues, danger and suspense. I find the murders creative in this series. I can hardly wait to get to the next great cozy mystery.
I have enjoyed this series, and have purchased most in print copies after reading in Kindle.
Murder at Bray Manor is the third Ginger Gold mystery book by Lee Strauss and I enjoyed it a lot. Set in England in the early 1920’s readers find Ginger embroiled in another mystery–this time to find the ghost supposedly haunting her deceased husband’s home and finding also another murder to solve. The story is charming, interesting, and full of humor and, oh, the description of the fashions and decor of the times (the 1920s) is marvelous–one can just picture oneself right in the scenes. The story moves quickly with a few twists and turns to the plot. The author keeps the reader guessing pretty much to the end of the story as to the murderer. And what about Scotland Yard’s Inspector Reed? Does he think she meddling or does he kind of like that Ginger is hanging around him trying to work the clues? I can’t wait to read the next in the series.
I listened to a library audiobook and Elizabeth Klett did an excellent job narrating the book, making for an enjoyable listening experience.
I do like that Basil and Ginger are getting closer to perhaps building a relationship and look forward that blossoming in future books. I think Lee Strauss will become one of my favorite authors.
This is Book 3 in the series which I am reading in order. I love the time period. It’s after the war and things are slowly getting back to normal. Lady Gold gets a message from her sister in law that there are strange things happening at the manor and her mother is upset can she come find out what is going on. There’s a murder after a ball for the disabled veterans and it happened on the estate. The handsome detective from Scotland Yard is called in to help as there is only a very small police force.
I am getting back my love of historical cozies/mysteries. Love reading about the fashions, cars and how simple things were back then.
Love this series!
read this one single a while back and just finished it again in 3 pack collection just out on amazon, 9.99 or kindle unlimited
Kindle Unlimited, actually have read each of them individually, as they came out, but due to a bit of down time in books and series usually read, had a couple or so free days so pulled this one back up as 3 set. BTW, they do hold up the second go round, and book 4 {Feathers and Flair, also listed below} is due out soonish. Strauss has quite a few series out {listed below as well} but this is definitely my favorite.{All will be out on ku just not immediately but soonish after release as single.} Still reminds me, somewhat of Miss Marple, but even more so of Miss Fisher {look it up, it’s on video}. Quite unusual to have the time and not just the wish to reread an entire {up until now} series.
MURDER ON THE SS ROSA
It’s 1923 and young war widow fashionista Ginger Gold makes a cross-Atlantic journey with her companion Haley Higgins to London England to settle her father’s estate. When the ship’s captain is found dead, Ginger is only too happy to lend her assistance to the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed.The SS Rosa delivers a convincing array of suspects – the wife, the mistress, a jealous crew mate. To Ginger’s dismay, her name has been added to the list! With a little help from Ginger’s dog Boss, Ginger and Haley navigate the clues (those wartime operative skills come in handy.) They must solve the case and clear Ginger’s name before they dock–and oh, whatever shall she wear!
MURDER AT HARTIGAN HOUSE
There’s a skeleton in the attic! After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home–Hartigan House–to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic. Ginger’s Boston terrier, Boss, noses out a missing phalange from under the bed. It’s a mystery that once again puts Ginger alongside the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. Who is the victim? And how did she end up in Ginger’s home? Clues lead Ginger and her good friend Haley Higgins to a soirée hosted in 1913 by Ginger’s late father, George Hartigan. A shadow of suspicion is cast on her father’s legacy, and Ginger isn’t so sure she wants to know the truth about the man she dearly loved. Ginger decides to host another soirée, inviting the guest list from ten years previous. Before the night is over, another person is dead.
MURDER AT BRAY MANOR
A poltergeist guilty of murder? Ginger Gold receives a letter from her sister-in-law, Felicia, requesting Ginger come straightaway to her late husband’s family home, Bray Manor. Dowager Lady Gold, Ginger’s nervous grandmother through marriage, believes the old manor is haunted. Ginger doesn’t believe in ghosts, but is haunted nevertheless by memories of her husband and the lure of his gravesite she just can’t bring herself to visit. In order to keep Bray Manor afloat financially, Felicia and Ambrosia have opened the estate to the public for club meetings and special events. Knitters, stamp collectors and gardeners converge weekly–targets for the poltergeist that seems to find amusement in hiding small things from their owners. Bray Manor hosts a dance to raise money for maimed soldiers who struggle with peacetime after the Great War. Felicia invites her flapper friends and her new beau, Captain Smithwick, a man Ginger has met before and definitely doesn’t like. When the dance ends with the discovery of a body, Ambrosia is certain the poltergeist is to blame, but Ginger is quite sure the murderer is made of flesh and blood.
Ginger Gold Mysteries
Murder on the SS Rosa: a cozy historical mystery – a novella (A Ginger Gold Mystery Book 1)
Murder at Hartigan House: a cozy historical mystery (A Ginger Gold Mystery Book 2)
Murder at Bray Manor: a cozy historical mystery (A Ginger Gold Mystery Book 3)
Murder at Feathers & Flair: a cozy historical mystery (A Ginger Gold Mystery Book 4) (Oct 28, 2017)
Perception Trilogy {0.5-3}, Nursery Rhyme suspense stories {short story I Spy with my Little Eye Books plus 4 more in series}, Clockwise series {5 plus a novella, time travel type}. Not only are the books available individually but also in various sets.
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