Lord and Lady Calaway Series by Issy Brooke
Lord and Lady Calaway #1
Murder at Mondial Castle
Issy Brooke
<p><b>Adelia's broken free of the restraints that Victorian society puts on a woman. By using her wit, unconventional intelligence and good humour, she's risen to marry an earl who dotes on her; she's raised and married off seven beautiful daughters; what more is there for her now?</b></p> <p>What, indeed. Adelia's looking for a new adventure. She's not ready for her twilight years of slumber just yet…</p><p>Then her daughter's friend is found brutally murdered in the grounds of Mondial Castle – in the company of a man who is not her husband. That man is the Marquis of Mondial but he's also injured and obviously above suspicion. Yet his subsequent peculiar behaviour soon sets fashionable tongues wagging…</p><p>Adelia negotiates the gossips of the drawing room while her husband Theodore wrestles with the other gentlemen and their foibles.</p><p>Adelia and Theodore are shocked as they peel back layers of deadly secrets in the household of the castle but the truth at the heart of it threatens their own daughter's marriage … and their whole family's place in society.</p><p><i>Unmasking the murderer is impossible alone but working as a team, they are unique.</i></p><p><i>And unstoppable.</i></p>
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Lord and Lady Calaway #2
The Viscount's Deadly Game
Issy Brooke
<p><b>Who killed Viscount Beaconberg?</b></p><p>Lady Beaconberg's a prime suspect: the money-grabbing snob of a wife would do anything to get further up the social ladder, and ditching a lowly viscount would free her for marriage to a much more esteemed nobleman.</p><p>Or perhaps the killer was the viscount's business partner, Sir Arthur, who's been arguing in public and in private, desperate to wrest control of the racing stables fully into his own hands.</p><p>As Theodore Caxton, the Earl of Calaway and his wife Adelia look further into the viscount's suspicious death, more secrets emerge from the family's past. Everyone had someone to gain from the murder. How far will the killer go to hide the truth?</p><p>Theodore's a man of learning and science; Adelia's got a gift for reading people and asking the right questions. Together they get dangerously close to the murderer. When events separate them – one on a wild chase across the northern moors of England, the other into the heart of horse racing at York – can they each survive on their own?</p><p>They cannot afford to be losers in this deadly game of murder, love and money.</p>
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Lord and Lady Calaway #4
The Earl's Mortal Enemy
Issy Brooke
The Victorian era is an age of excursions. And for every hopeful holidaymaker, there are dozens of businesses hoping to sell them the trip of their dreams.Four such men, eager to make money, come together to offer fossil-hunting expeditions along the south coast of England. But ambition and greed soon rip the venture apart and it ends in violent murder.Unfortunately, the victim is killed right under the noses of Lord and Lady Calaway. It ought to be a simple case; the police order that no-one is to leave their large country house. The suspects are assembled. But each question unearths more unwelcome secrets from the past, and Adelia herself has to confront a love affair that she thought she'd put long behind her.As the revelations threaten to tear her marriage apart, the scandalous behaviour of her daughter Edith is rocking their position in society too. Beset on all sides, Adelia has to defy convention, defy the police … and defy her very own husband.She is used to fixing other peoples' relationships. But if she can't solve this murder, she might lose her marriage too…This is the fourth book in The Discreet Investigations of Lord and Lady Calaway. It is written in British English, which may use unfamiliar spellings, vocabulary and grammatical structures. Enjoy with a nice cup of Earl Grey tea and perhaps a biscuit.
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