Author: Jessica Fellowes
Price: £6.99 paperback, £13.24 hardback, £3.99 Kindle
Description:
Lose yourself in the sumptuous first novel in a new series of Golden Age mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters.
It’s 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.
Louisa’s salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nurserymaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy – an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.
But when a nurse – Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake – is killed on a train in broad daylight, Nancy and amateur sleuth Louisa find that in postwar England, everyone has something to hide…

Reviews
A lively, well-written, entertaining whodunit (The Times (Crime Fiction Book of the Month))
Exactly the sort of book you might enjoy with the fire blazing, the snow falling etc. The solution is neat and the writing always enjoyable. (Best Crime Books of 2017) (Anthony Horowitz)
An extraordinary meld of fact and fiction (Graham Norton)
True and glorious indulgence. A dazzling example of a golden age mystery. (Daisy Goodwin)
All the blissful escapism of a Sunday-night period drama in a book. (The Pool)
Keeps the reader guessing to the very end. An accomplished crime debut and huge fun to read. (Evening Standard)
This story is drenched in detail and feels both authentic and fun. Curl up in your favourite reading spot and enjoy. (Heat)
The plan is that each book will focus on a different Mitford sister. On the strength of this initial entry, success is assured. (Financial Times)
Elegant, whipsmart and brilliantly twisty-turny, this Downton-style mystery had me hooked from the first page (Viv Groskop)
Full of period pleasure. (Woman & Home)