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This time Lady Fan is juggling motherhood with murder! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. What do you do when a dead body lands on your doorstep...?
1794, England
When a body is unceremoniously dumped outside her home, Lady Ottilia Fanshawe is once more drawn into a murder case.
Ottilia is recovering from the birth of her first child and her husband, Lord Francis Fanshawe, is worried that she has finally taken on more than she can handle.
But Ottilia will not be diverted. Motherhood has always been her deepest desire, but solving crimes is her passion. And she is determined to balance both.
No one in her household recognises the dead man, and yet a note was left with Lady Fan's name on it. Clearly, someone wants her to investigate the crime, but why?
Who is the dead man? Why was he killed?
And what led to him being dropped at Lady Fan's door...?
THE UNWANTED CORPSE is the eighth book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century England.
'The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives-and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey!' - Meritorious Mysteries
'Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work' - She Reads Novels
'They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well! Her heroine sleuth, Ottilia, is a fantastic character.' - Historical Romance UK
LADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES BOOK ONE: The Gilded Shroud BOOK TWO: The Deathly Portent BOOK THREE: The Opium Purge BOOK FOUR: The Candlelit Coffin BOOK FIVE: The Mortal Blow BOOK SIX: The Fateful Marriage BOOK SEVEN: The Dagger Dance BOOK EIGHT: The Unwanted Corpse BOOK NINE: The Vengeance Trail BOOK TEN: The Hanging Cheat BOOK ELEVEN: The Killing Cave
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This time Lady Fan is juggling motherhood with murder! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. What do you do when a dead body lands on your doorstep...?
1794, England
When a body is unceremoniously dumped outside her home, Lady Ottilia Fanshawe is once more drawn into a murder case.
Ottilia is recovering from the birth of her first child and her husband, Lord Francis Fanshawe, is worried that she has finally taken on more than she can handle.
But Ottilia will not be diverted. Motherhood has always been her deepest desire, but solving crimes is her passion. And she is determined to balance both.
No one in her household recognises the dead man, and yet a note was left with Lady Fan's name on it. Clearly, someone wants her to investigate the crime, but why?
Who is the dead man? Why was he killed?
And what led to him being dropped at Lady Fan's door...?
THE UNWANTED CORPSE is the eighth book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century England.
'The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives-and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey!' - Meritorious Mysteries
'Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work' - She Reads Novels
'They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well! Her heroine sleuth, Ottilia, is a fantastic character.' - Historical Romance UK
LADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES BOOK ONE: The Gilded Shroud BOOK TWO: The Deathly Portent BOOK THREE: The Opium Purge BOOK FOUR: The Candlelit Coffin BOOK FIVE: The Mortal Blow BOOK SIX: The Fateful Marriage BOOK SEVEN: The Dagger Dance BOOK EIGHT: The Unwanted Corpse BOOK NINE: The Vengeance Trail BOOK TEN: The Hanging Cheat BOOK ELEVEN: The Killing Cave