Murder in Drury Lane (Book 2)
About This Book
Genre: Historical Mystery / Regency Mystery
Setting: London, Regency England
Mystery Elements: Amateur sleuth, accused heroine, suspicious neighbors, secrets, abolitionist intrigue, unlikely investigative partners
For readers who love: Clever female sleuths, Regency society with a darker edge, diverse historical mysteries, abolitionist history, suspicious neighbors, social intrigue, and a heroine determined to clear her name.
Next Up: Murder in Drury Lane
Bringing a vibrant edge and welcome diversity to the Regency genre, this exciting historical mystery series features an engaging heroine with an independent streak, a notorious past, and a decided talent for sleuthing ...
Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton's judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition--and her fears that someone from her past wants her permanently silenced. But on one particular June evening everything collides, and the performance takes an unwelcome turn . . .
Onstage, a woman emits a scream of genuine terror. A man has been found dead in the prop room, stabbed through the heart. Abigail's neighbor, Stapleton Henderson, is also in attendance, and the two rush backstage. The magistrate, keen to avoid bringing more attention to the case and making Lady Worthing more of a target, asks Abigail not to investigate. But she cannot resist, especially when the usually curmudgeonly Henderson offers his assistance.
Abigail soon discovers a tangled drama that rivals anything brought to the stage, involving gambling debts, a beautiful actress with a parade of suitors, and the very future of the Drury Lane theatre. For Abigail the case is complicated still further, for one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart--the abolition of slavery within the British empire. Uncovering the truth always comes at a price. But this time, it may be far higher than she wishes to pay.
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