Author: lynnmessina
Having inexplicably nabbed the Duke of Kesgrave, twenty-six-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once and no amount of handwringing from anxious family members, worried friends and well-meaning acquaintances will convince her to delay. Except…maybe she is a little swayed by her uncle’s efforts to make amends for treating her with cold indifference during her … her childhood. And her aunt’s concern about the growing scandal around her unfortunate habit of unmasking murderers in the middle of society events isn’t entirely unfounded.And then there’s the truly unfathomable appearance on her doorstep of the former Miss Brougham, the…
Having long abandoned any hope of making a match, twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare finds herself a little overwhelmed by her engagement to the Duke of Kesgrave. Cloying society matrons clamor for her attention while her aunt reels off an endless list of servants she will have to oversee. Even the most intrepid female would quake at the prospect of managing eight footmen!Fortunately, Bea … footmen!Fortunately, Bea knows the perfect distraction—an intriguing mystery—and pays a call on the Countess of Abercrombie, who had promised her that very thing only the evening before. But her ladyship is reluctant to discuss the details with…
In 19th-century England, spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare tries to mind her manners and avoid prying into the circumstances surrounding a mysterious death in the Lake District. But when she discovers a corpse in a country house library, she can’t help but investigate…
As much as Beatrice Hyde-Clare relished the challenge of figuring out who murdered a fellow guest during a house party in the Lake District, she certainly does not consider herself an amateur investigator. So when a London dandy falls dead at her feet in the entryway of a London Daily Gazette, she feels no compulsion to investigate. It was a newspaper office, after all, and reporters are already … already on the case as are the authorities. She has her own problems to deal with anyway—such as extricating herself from a seemingly harmless little fib that has somehow grown in…
Having solved the two murders that somehow fell in her path, Beatrice Hyde-Clare is on the lookout for a third. Through a absurd quirk of stupid fate, the shy spinster has fallen in love with the thoroughly unattainable Duke of Kesgrave and is desperate for something, anything, to occupy her mind. A dead body would do nicely.Fortunately for her, a fellow guest from a Lake District house party … house party appears on her doorstep with exactly that: the lover of his fiancée’s mother expired after a wretchedly painful episode just that morning in an apparent poisoning. As unorthodox as…
Lady Agatha uses her talent for caricatures to mock the rest of society — including the charming Viscount Addleson. But when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret, Addleson surprisingly comes to her rescue!
Emma Harlow is determined to save her dear sister from a bad betrothal, and the Duke of Trent is exactly the man to help her. She wants the duke to steal her sister’s heart… but what if he captures Emma’s affections instead?