Lady Fan and her crime-fighting family are back! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen. A dark shadow has been brought from the West Indies to an English estate...
1790, England
Lord Francis and Lady Ottilia Fanshawe are preparing for the birth of their first child.
But Lady Fan won't let a little thing like pregnancy get in the way of solving a local mystery.
Their neighbour - Sir Joslin Cadel - who recently returned from a sugar plantation in Barbados, has collapsed and died on his doorstep.
And his young ward, Tamasine Roy, claims to have murdered him.
With Tamasine clearly suffering from some kind of mental disorder, and the rest of Cadel's household acting suspiciously, it is clear all is not as it seems.
Why did Sir Joslin suddenly return to England? What happened to Tamasine's parents?
Could this seemingly angelic young woman really be a murderess...?
THE OPIUM PURGE is the third 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 London.
'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
